Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the mellow brick walls of St. James's Palace the blond, horsy young Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...date most favored by early guessers on the coronation. May 12 was finally decided upon because the leaves would not be too far out to obstruct rooftop views of the coronation procession. Privately King Edward told his most dear brother and counselor and the Duke of Norfolk, who is officially responsible for arranging the coronation, to do everything they possibly could to simplify the interminable ritual...
...Presiding Bishop, no disheartening job-hunting was necessary. Next month he becomes curate of Christ and St. Luke's Church in Norfolk (1,300 communicants). By the powers bestowed upon him last week by his Father in God & in flesh, Deacon Perry may assist in ministering Holy Communion, reading Scriptures, instructing youth, baptizing infants, may even preach with the permission of his bishop...
Starting training early for the fox-hunting season, fifty foreseeing Freshmen shattered century-old traditions of "Ye College Yard," Harvard Yard, and whatever it may have been in the meanwhile, by staging a drag-hunt there last night with hounds from the Norfolk Hunt Club...
...scholarship was established in 1670 by William Pennoyer, a London merchant, who bequeathed part of the revenue of a farm in Norfolk, England, to Harvard College. Pennoyer's will stipulated that "Two fellows and two scholars for ever shalbe maintained and brought up in the colledge ... of which one ... may be of the lyne or posterity of ... Robert Pennoyer, ... and the other of the Newhaven Colony." For two and a quarter centuries, Harvard received the rent from the Pennoyer farm. The estate was sold in 1897, and Harvard's share of the proceeds now supports two undergraduate scholarships...