Word: peelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Robert Peel, 36. onetime gentleman sheep farmer in Australia, descendant of the founder of London's police force by whose nickname ("Bobby"') its members are known, husband of Actress Beatrice Lillie; following an appendectomy; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. England. Their only child, Robert, 13, inherits the title...
...young man whom she is trying successfully to seduce calls at her penthouse, Tira (Mae West) is not amused. "I'll trouble you to scram," she says, gesticulating with her hips. When she has pushed her caller through the door, Tira feels the need of light refreshment. "Beulah, peel me a grape," she tells her maid...
Here I am down at the Blue Eagle's nest and Critz! things sure look Bluege all right. Them New Yorkers are Terryfying the Moores here, yes-sir. The Senators got so hot under the collar today that they had to Peel off their coats to keep Kuehl. Manush! they sure are in 'Ott water. The Goose laid the golden egg and kept 'em going strong up to the sixth frame yesterday and it looked as if no one could Crowder off the field, but they sure are Myered now, Enough of this; this is series business. The score: Washington...
...Madame Vestris, by Leo Waitzkin '33. The following theses have appeared in previous years: "Poetical Intoxication," by W. N. Bates '30; "Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde '30; "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw," by Ayers Brinser '31; "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan," by Robert Peel '31; and "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School," by W. W. Watt '32. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...officers, "BOQ"' (bachelor officers' quarters), enlisted men's barracks, recreation building, all in Spanish architecture. Most remarkable is the dock which measures about three city blocks long, one block wide and 18 stories high. Like the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock its ends are closed by enormous orange-peel doors. Each "peel" weighs 400 tons, is moved by a 250-h. p. motor. An inclined elevator leads from the "deck" (floor) to the roof. Out of each end of the dock for nearly a half-mile run two standard-gauge railroad tracks terminating in two mooring circles...