Word: seals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less at random, the tenure continuing for no definite space of time, and bringing with it no dignity. But soon it was recognized that the office carried with it a certain honor and opportunity for advancement. Gradually the titles became permanent, and finally hereditary, until the right to a seal in the House of Lords by right of ancestry has been sanctioned by constitutional usage...
...only change is the appointment of Lord Robert Cecil as Lord Privy Seal. The duties of this office are in no way onerous, so it is evident that Lord Robert is to be used as " pinch hitter " for the Cabinet...
Governor Smith has finally scaled the doom of the Mullan-Gage Act and set the seal in no uncertain terms as to his opinion of its fountain-head, the Volstead Act. Yet however much Wets may shout with joy or Drys thunder against the "deep damnation of this taking off". Federal enforcement, increased and strengthened, will continue in New York State and the status quo will be little deranged. Certainly Governor Smith is a close enough student of Constitutional law not to endorse an act which would have a flavor of secession, as some zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this...
...honor there assembled last week at the south entrance of the Treasury Building in Washington, some 5,000 citizens, several members of the Cabinet, Senators, the President and Mrs. Harding to unveil a statue to the man who " put the seal of sanctity upon financial honor...
Personally, if there were only somebody writing for boys just now who could excavate something as thrilling as Kirk Munroe's Bick Dale or The Fur Seal's Tooth we wouldn't care whether a good deal of the modern literary school kept...