Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Famed young Etonians this year are: Hon. Francis David Langhorne Astor and Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...
Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was among the early-morning guests at Club Calais, one of the many nightclubs in Manhattan. A man passed her table, stumbled over her feet. He proved to be Ben ("Brownie") Bronston, whom the New York Daily News described as "a pal of Waxie Gordon in the Jersey booze racket." That newspaper reported the following conversation...
Bronston (to Lady Peel's escort): Tell that dame to keep her feet under the table...
...Lady Peel: Oh, pulEEZE...
This minimum, so modestly mentioned, will in fact: leave under British control the Indian Federation's armed forces, foreign policy, state finances. Even so Great Britain yielded at the Round Table Conference more than anyone expected she would. At the last moment, just before the conference rose, Lord Peel, speaking for the British Conservative Party, joined Lord Reading (for the Liberals) and Laborite MacDonald in pledging his party's support to the concessions offered India "if satisfactory safeguards are obtained...