Word: peel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next three decades Curaçao was no more, to the average citizen, than the name of a liqueur?an infusion of bitter orange peel so easily made and so eminently potable that to the fury of Dutch sour-orange growers, it is successfully imitated in nearly every country in the world...
...have the operation without an anesthetic, so you could see how the animals feel that you have tortured all these years? You will have an awful body in the next incarnation. . . . You have one foot in the grave now and the other foot on a banana peel, you old fiend." Remarked Surgeon Keen: "I take it that the letter is from a woman. If so I pity her possible husband. The fun of the thing is that I never have been a research worker. I have never experimented on any animal, not even a mouse or a frog. I shall...
...Robert Peel is the only son of the eldest son of the eldest son of great Sir Robert Peel (died 1850). Lord Peel is the eldest son of the youngest son of the same potent progenitor. Lord Peel inherits the title of Viscount from his father, who received it upon his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons...
When one speaks of "Lady Peel'' one correctly refers to either: 1) Ella Viscountess Peel, prim; or 2) Beatrice Lillie, flippant. It was the latter Lady Peel, of course, who recently originated the jest of calling every U. S. citizen residing west of Manhattan a "Middlie Westie...
Early in 1920 Beatrice Gladys Lillie wed Sir Robert and three days before Christmas gave birth to Robert, still her only child. His destiny is to head the Peel line and inherit 10,000 acres. Shortly his irrepressible mother will open in Manhattan as the star of Noel Coward's This Year of Grace, London's superhit revue of the season...