Word: wands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ornate person is the Vice-Chamberlain of Great Britain. He helps with the domestic accounts of the Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean...
...Your fundamental purpose must be to determine the facts and find solution of a multitude of agricultural problems. ... All this cannot be accomplished by a magic wand or by an overnight action. . . . You are the representatives of organized agriculture itself. . . . I invest you with responsibility, authority and resources such as have never before been conferred by our government in assistance of any industry...
Last week Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill of Cincinnati waved his magic wand of efficiency and all city firemen found themselves invested with police powers. On a general police alarm they will issue from their firehouses and place their apparatus across 65 important street intersections, thus blocking all traffic and the escape of criminals...
...newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...
...eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...