Word: scepters
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...opening campaign speech little Fiorello tossed away his prepared manuscript, grabbed off his horn-rimmed glasses and used them alternately as a cutlass, a rapier, a backscratcher, a wand, a scepter, a drumstick and a trowel. He touched his toes, imitated a football player's kickoff, spat on an imaginary apple and polished it on his sleeve. He told the audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge...
...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...