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King and Lords accepted him, the doorkeeper of the Commons announced: "Speaker elected." Brown entered the Speaker's House, donned his full-bottomed wig and the Speaker's traditional large black gown. Then the Sergeant at Arms, majestically carrying the gold mace of royal authority over his shoulder, marched Brown to the Chair of the House. Brown sat down: he was Britain's 139th Speaker of the Commons...
...Algernon Fitzroy did not have the political power of U.S. Speakers, but his prestige was greater. Like his U.S. counterparts, he was chosen by the majority party, but his tenure did not, as in the U.S. depend upon that party's staying in power. When he donned the wig he resigned from his party, could look forward to a lifetime job or (if he got too feeble) to a peerage when he retired. Like all good British Speakers-and there have been few bad ones in recent times-Captain Fitzroy had to become a political agnostic, impartially guiding...
...King's wish that another Speaker be appointed. Two M.P.s propose and second a man agreed upon by Tories and Laborites. The new Speaker formally "protests his unworthiness," is then elected and conducted to the seat of Commons' authority. At this stage he wears a bobbed wig. The King is asked to approve the choice. When he does (in practice, he must), the Speaker may don a long, full-bottomed wig. Then, and then only, the House is constitutionally complete and able to proceed with Britain's business...
Luis Herrera Guevara, who has not a hair on his head, sports a black wig in winter, a reddish one in summer. He admits: "Often I make mistakes, put two balconies on a house when there should be three. . ." This does not bother his admirers...
Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...