Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mace. Perhaps because no Congressman ever raped it, few U. S. citizens know that the House of Representatives has its distinctive Mace, topped by a silver American Eagle rampant. Should two Congressmen quarrel in the House, Sergeant-at-Arms J. G. Rodgers or his assistant would instantly snatch the Mace from its pedestal at the right of Speaker Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within...
...rode in state down the Strand last week to the just-finished pile of India House on Aldwych, passed smiling between lines of gold-braided officialdom, mounted the Throne of India guarded by four gigantic Indian Orderlies in red and black, and faced his own specially designed gold and silver microphone...
...gave her highwalled villa at Newport, R. I. to the Carmelite Sisterhood for a nunnery, became a novice therein (TIME, May 26). Because nuns must be poor, she last week yielded to the Museum her husband's collection of rare paintings, drawings, miniatures, objects in gold, silver, marble, bronze...
Abba Hillel Silver, Stephen Samuel Wise...
...Stevens Hotel ("World's Largest"), haven for many a convention, were crowded with milling men and women. Funnyman Will Rogers said "Twenty thousand Rotarians walking the streets of Chicago . . . not a one has been shot or robbed. It looks like negligence." The occasion: Rotary International's Silver Anniversary Convention, held last week in Chicago, birthplace of Rotary. Some 15,000 delegates attended, fortified with good cheer, name plates, geographical hat-bands, freedom of the city...