Word: sceptered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large dining room the patronesses will receive before a throne which is to be an exact copy of the one used in the Coronation. The purple ermine robe and the gold scepter, symbols of the British Empire, will decorate the throne, and above it will hang a canopy and a large replica of the British coat of arms...
...little art museum of Bonn on the Rhine cleared out of its cellars a collection of pictures that had been gathering dust for nearly 30 years, put them up at public auction in nearby Cologne. One grimy picture of a plump young woman in a gilt crown and scepter went up on the block and was knocked down for 700 marks ($300) to Dutch Dealer David Katz. Back to Amsterdam, after 270 years, the picture went. It was cleaned and instantly recognized as the original Juno-a bargain at $250,000. In search of some such price the picture reached...
...South Africa's Premier Mine, in which was discovered in 1905 the world's biggest diamond (Weight: 3,106 carats-1⅓ lb.); in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cullinan I, largest (530 carats) of the 105 diamonds cut from it, reposes in King Edward VIII's scepter...
King Cakobau's cracker has had an interesting history. After he had bashed the heads of his rebellious subjects with it, he waved it for many years over the more peaceable ones as a scepter. In 1874 King Cakobau's war club was presented as a symbol of submission to Queen-Empress Victoria. Tactful King George lately ordered it sent back to Fiji, where His Majesty's Governor Sir Murchison Fletcher of the Fiji Islands last week offered it to the Legislature...
...sank at sea last May, August Messenger Thai Van Toan barely escaped with his life. Last week he had the satisfaction of seeing Emperor Bao Dai enthroned in the Palace of Supreme Peace. For hours & hours & hours His Majesty had to sit motionless, extending his white jade scepter while brigades of mandarins bowed in batches. According to Imperial Chinese etiquet, now observed exclusively at the Court of Annam, "no man's eyes may rest upon the Emperor enthroned, no woman may be in the Throne Room and the Emperor's eyes must dwell motionless upon utter vacancy as his mind...