Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wellington suffered at the hands of the Duke of York, King George III, King George IV, King William IV, Sir Harry Burrard, the Horse Guards, his brilliant brother Richard, Lord Wellesley, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, his friend Lord Castlereagh, the Hindoos, the Portuguese, the Spanish generals. But in this long catalogue of enemies and enmity the most merciless, damaging and unrelenting were the English poets and prose writers, and the spirit of sardonic mockery they expressed, not only against the Duke but against the conservative principles for which he was the ablest warrior...
Great baking ovens occupy one side of the room. Reaching the ceiling, their great tile fronts seem to glower over the whole room. They are heated to a tremendous temperature by gas jets, and when they are opened, the narrow tile inner ovens are incandescant with heat. "Peel poles" 12 to 14 feet in length with wooden paddles on one end are the agents for placing leaves in and removing them from the ovens. In the baking of French bread the crowning touch is the use of steam jets on the hot loaves to produce a perfect crust...
...Peel off, Barney...
...first time, we see fleets of Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout the picture. Then, to top it off,--the lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics and twirling six-shooters, you have tanks, motorcycles, hand grenades, sub-machine guns...
Killed in Action. Sir Robert Peel, 20, only son of Lady Peel (Comedienne Beatrice Lillie) and the late Sir Robert Peel; with the Royal Navy; somewhere in the Far East. His mother got the news backstage, carried on with her revue performance...