Word: mace
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Then, while the House and the other three tellers literally froze in their tracks with horror, Teller Beckett stretched forth a rash hand toward Parliament's most sacred emblem?the Mace...
...quite 300 years ago, in 1653, doughty Oliver Cromwell froze English blood by his terrible command, "Take away that bauble!", and for a time the Mace was taken away. Since then no M. P. upon no matter what provocation has ever removed the Mace?this being the sole prerogative of the Sergeant-at-Arms...
...Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned him in the desolate Blue Mountains. With a young English girl named Ada Allen Mace whom he later married, he escaped, stole a camel, reached the British lines...
...merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right. It was a fine professional joke...
...horses drew it. Seated on the festooned box was the splendiferous Lord Mayor's coachman, his fat calves gleaming in pink silk stockings, a plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling...