Word: maces
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...fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
...heaved a sigh of relief one evening last week, put away a heavy bundle of 13 black rods surmounted by a silver eagle, and went home to dinner. And the sigh heaved by quiet Mr. Hatcher, Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in charge of the Mace,* echoed the sentiments of many a U. S. citizen...
...session was historic (see p. 20). From 2:45 p.m. when the clerk placed on the table the great mace, signifying that Parliament was in session, to 10:30 p.m. when members left the building, found crowds singing Rule Britannia outside, it was stamped with the quality of grave decision that has marked the great crises of Parliament. Mr. Churchill did not speak. When the vote came he walked out the door on the Government side of the House, thereby signifying his assent to the granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech...
...Latin word pronounced lee-mace, meaning crossroad, limit, boundary, passage. Limes Germanicus, built in the First Century A.D. from the Rhine to the Danube, was a series of forts to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...know full well that the campaign against us in the press, encouraged and abetted by your 'warning,' has reached new heights of unprincipled slander. You know perfectly well that the charges that we intended to 'coerce,' 'mace' or 'shake down' the WPA workers are without an iota of justification in fact...