Word: councillor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative mace, symbol of parliamentary authority, is the emasculate descendant of a war club. Few are the legislative maces that look like clubs. Almost none were ever weapons. But last week the Legislative Council of the Fiji Islands got a true weapon-mace. In future no Fiji Councillor may introduce a bill or make a speech or have his vote counted unless the venerable skull-cracker of King Cakobau, last native ruler of Fiji, lies upon the table...
...Cried Councillor Jules Guichet: "But certainly the snail is game. One hunts it, does one not? The game warden is trying to escape his responsibility...
...Councillor Andre Fabre suggested that the snail was a domestic animal. Other councillors promptly objected that domestic snails had already deteriorated from inbreeding.* Only the wild herds needed protection...
...Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster...
...banker, onetime board chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., brother of Wall Street's famed James ("Jimmie") Speyer; of a hemorrhage following a nasal operation; in Berlin. Of German parentage, he became a British subject and banker, was made a baronet and Privy Councillor. During the War he was accused of trading with the enemy, and though denying the charges, requested that his honors be revoked. After the War he was deprived of British citizenship, retired to Manhattan. His wife, Leonora Speyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry...