Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first volume of a new series, "Twelve English Statesmen," published by Macmillan and Co., has just appeared. The illustrious twelve are: William the Conqueror, Henry II., Edward I., Henry VII., Wolsey, Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell, William III., Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, and Peel. Among the contributors to the series are: E. A. Freeman, F. York Powell, M. Creighton, Frederick Harrison, and John Morley...
...procession was loudly cheered at various points on the route, and it was thought that the affair was to pass off without a jar, when suddenly, as the chief marshaless and her staff were about to descend the stairs leading to the ground floor, they were assaulted with orange peel, and showers of water by a body of hoodlumettes ensconced upon the stairs above. This assault was the signal for little less than a riot; hairpins were drawn on both sides, and a general scrimmage seemed unavoidable. The attacking party seemed to be overawed, however, by the superior numbers...
...Arthur Wellesley Peel, the new speaker of the English House, is a graduate of Eton and Oxford...
...occupied until the beginning of this century, when no ones were erected, together with a chapel. The chapel has since been replaced by a larger and finer edifice, and lately the fine Vaughan library and a school hospital have been built. Buron was a graduate of this school; also Peel, Canning, Sheridan, and many other men of note, although Eton bears the palm for educating remarkable...
...fellows being "The House," derived from its Latin name Aedes Christi. This college is renowned for the statesmen it has sent forth upon their career. Among the older graduates are such names as Godolphin, Bolingbroke, Mansfield, Locke, Ben Johnson and Sir Philip Sydney, while the modern names of Peel, Canning and Gladstone keep up the reputation of the college. Christ Church Hall with its lofty roof of Irish oak and armorial bearings is the finest in the world, Westminister Hall in London excepted. Many celebrated pictures hang upon the walls by Lely, Kneller and Sir Joshua Reynolds...