Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, supporting the negative, was represented by F. Welch Peel '39 and Ward M. Hussey '40. Vassar was represented by the Misses Gerry Gewirtz and Jean Symmes, while the judges were: Miss Eicanor S. Davies, Miss Kathleen Deady, president of the senior class at Radcliffe, and Mr. C. E. Allen, dean of the River School...
...garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
...almost entirely with serious political events-Cabinet crises, diplomatic juggling, Queen Victoria's shrewish squabbles with her ministers. Its value: that Greville, a shrewd and accurate reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those with direct political repercussions...
Taking the affirmative side, the Crimson lineup, consisting of F. Welch Peel '39, Malcom Wilkey '40, and Thomas Carroll '42, convinced the judges that government pump-priming was unsatisfactory...
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...