Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred water closets having been installed and tested under the ancient eye of the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April 26), these last weeks were carefully subdivided into groups: PEERS, GENTLEMEN and MEN; PEERESSES, LADIES and WOMEN. The Duke of Norfolk's office issued precise directions for their use: every two hours, Gentlemen Ushers of the Gold Rod would pass watchfully up & down the stands. Peers, gentlemen and men should attract the ushers' attention by raising the hands (but not snapping the fingers) and would be escorted to their respective stations...
Momentos of the ascension of James II include elaborate rules for ladies's wear, and descriptions of the fireworks celebrating the occasion. The Duke of Norfolk, in charge of the ceremonies in 1685, ordered the women to wear "petticoats" of "cloath of silver," and to allow their "surcoats to open before, that the petticoats may show." Two weeks before the event he ordered that no person attending the coronation, either as a guest of spectator "do appear in Mourning Habit for that...
...Prince and the Pauper starts on the day in 1537 when boy infants are born simultaneously to Henry the VIII in Windsor Palace and to Pickpocket John Canty in Offal Court. Young Prince Edward thrives at the court, under the tutelage of the Duke of Norfolk (Henry Stephenson). Young Tom Canty thrives in the gutter, with Latin lessons from Father Andrew and whackings from his father (Barton MacLane). Prowling about London one day, Tom crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when...
...Canty falls under the wing of the bad Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) who, when he hears Tom's story about how he got into the palace, merely tells King Henry that the Prince is mad. When the old king dies. Hertford plans to execute the Duke of Norfolk and have Tom Canty crowned, with himself as Lord Protector. As things shape up, he seems in a fair way to accomplish...
...hatted West-Enders returning from their revels loitered in the chilly streets of London early last Sunday morning to watch the Duke of Norfolk's partly-dressed rehearsal of the Coronation procession. Thousands of others rose from their beds while it was still dark, turned out to get a better idea of what happens when a British monarch is crowned than most of them will get on the day of the ceremony. At 6:16 a.m. the procession moved off en route for Westminster Abbey. As the four-ton gilded coach, similar to that in which King George & Queen...