Word: rodding
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...Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Major Charles Rock Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons. Admitted, he marched stiffly down the aisle, bowing to the Speaker as he approached the dais to announce that the Senate awaited the presence of the Commons. In the form set centuries ago by the Mother of Parliaments, the M.P.s trooped into the Senate Chamber. There, black-robed Mr. Justice Kerwin, filling the role of the vacationing Governor General, gave royal assent to 300 bills. He thereupon declared the third session of the 20th Parliament of Canada prorogued...
...then a world's record for Kamloops (now it's a 36-pounder). Then the rush began. Anglers converged on Pend Oreille, equipped with deep-sea tackle and high hopes. When the Kamloops bit, they bit hard. One man, rowing along the shore one morning with his rod draped over the stern, suddenly saw the rod fly up as if alive. He dropped his oars and dived for it, splitting his chin open on the boat's gunwale. The fish got away, taking rod & reel with...
Twenty years ago Duke Ellington rode into the big time on a gunman's rod. A Philadelphia theater had him under contract but that didn't stop the burly boys sent by Harlem's Cotton Club which wanted him for their new show. One of them told the Philadelphia manager: "Be big or you'll be dead." The quaking manager gave up Ellington. The Duke and his jittery band arrived at the Cotton Club a few minutes before opening time...
Winning pitcher Rod Davis held the Lawrence batsmen to a total of three scattered hits, one of them a double in the last frame by the opposing moundsman...
...vain dreams? See how the kings of the earth stand in array, how its rulers make common cause, against the Lord. . . . Princes, take warning; learn your lesson, you that rule the world. Tremble, and serve the Lord, rejoicing in His presence, but with awe in your hearts; kiss the rod, do not brave the Lord's anger, and go astray from the sure path. When the fire of His vengeance blazes out suddenly, happy are they who find their refuge...