Word: maces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fiercely booed John Beckett, the Labor M. P. who last fortnight picked up for a moment and thereby "desecrated" the Mace, when he resumed his seat...
Hours later Mace-snatcher Beckett rose to put (ask) a question, as he had every right to do, but subsided blushing when the House with one voice roared: "Sit down...
...Mace. Perhaps because no Congressman ever raped it, few U. S. citizens know that the House of Representatives has its distinctive Mace, topped by a silver American Eagle rampant. Should two Congressmen quarrel in the House, Sergeant-at-Arms J. G. Rodgers or his assistant would instantly snatch the Mace from its pedestal at the right of Speaker Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within...
Impenitent Beckett. One policeman was sufficient to escort Gandhite Brockway and Mace-Snatcher Beckett last week "from the Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...
...said to him: 'They can't suspend Brockway if the Mace is not on the table, can they?' " explained Mr. Beckett, adding stoutly to protect his friend Brown: "Before he could reply I had already picked up the Mace. My first surprise was to find how light it was. I thought I could get away with it. If I had, I would have deposited it in the cloakroom and left the House...