Word: scone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from...
...strange coincidence occurred here yesterday when this vicinity was the scone of an earthquake 36 hours after Dr. R. A. Daly of the Geology Department delivered a lecture at Lowell Institute on earthquakes and the effect a quake would have in Boston. Dr. Daly stated in his speech that owing to the solid formation of the earth here that a shock would cause little destruction...
House of Commons. "Dave" Kirkwood, Labor M. P. for the Clyde, introduced his bill for removing the Stone of Scone*, or Lia Fail, to Scotland from Westminster Abbey. The bill passed its first reading by 201 to 171 votes. "Dave" caused laughter by telling the House that "this was the stone that Jacob had for a pillow at Bethel when the angels went up and down the ladder...
...Stone of Scone, upon which the Scotch Kings were crowned for 500 years, was brought from Scone to England by Edward I in 1296, and placed under the throne in Westminster Abbey. Since that date all the Sovereigns have been crowned upon it. Edward III offered to return it some fifty years later under stated conditions, but the Scotch noblemen refused his offer...