Word: maces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time the Lord Mayor of London flew somewhere last week, flew not only with his civic sword and his civic mace but medievally bedight in swishing robes, clanking gold chains of office and great plumed...
Necessarily the flight was made in a closed Imperial Airways liner of largest type. From London it whisked Lord Mayor Sir Maurice Jenks 200 miles north to Morecambe, Lancashire. Out climbed the Sword Bearer, the Mace Bearer, the City Marshal, the Common Cryer and a whole archaic retinue, so that Sir Maurice Jenks could inaugurate with proper pomp Morecambe's new Town Hall...
...Stated Canadian conditions to be "gradually improving." ¶ Opined that "prosperity in full measure must await the satisfactory adjustment of accounts between debtor and creditor nations of the world and the restoration of international monetary standards." The speech finished, the Commons filed back to their own House. The Mace was carried to & fro. Bill No. 1 (a dummy document) was read as usual. Parliament was in session...
...contains 19 chapters and over 125 articles. Serviceably bound in red, yellow & purple covers, the 400,000 volumes hurtled down last week somewhat dangerously, but there were no serious casualties. Into the Royal Palace, his official residence for the time being, went Senor Alcala Zamora, preceded by four mace-bearers. In Fontainebleau, ex-King Alfonso XIII spent the day playing golf, turned in a poor card...
...mace was presented to the Harvard Law Review last April, by the Honorable J. M. Woolsey, United States District Judge of New York, and will be handled tonight according to the producer of common law courts. The three acting judge, who will preside at the trail are to be ushered in by a marshall...