Word: scrolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major-league baseballer, crossword puzzles were beginning to catch on, Jack Dempsey was world's heavyweight champion, Calvin Coolidge was President and Manhattan's Jimmy Walker was still a State Senator. Last week, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia presented Lou Gehrig with a scroll for having played in his 1,800th consecutive game...
...scroll in caricature dating from the 12th Century shows Buddhist priests in the shape of monkeys, frogs and squirrels dressed in leaves and carrying lily pads for umbrellas...
...Pullman, spoke for a few minutes to Haile Selassie, then presented His Majesty to many an eminent, top-hatted friend of the League of Nations and of Ethiopia, including Economist Sir Walter Thomas Layton and Lord Allen of Hurtwood. They pressed upon His Majesty an engraved, though quite unofficial, scroll declaring...
Taking this scroll His Majesty cried: "God grant that it may be so! ... I come to England confident that I will obtain justice here. . . . May the British Crown and the British people live forever...
...scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...