Word: peeresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lords- ¶Voted down 125 to 80, Lord Astor's perennially revamped bill to seat peeresses in the House of Lords. Last year this measure was defeated by only two votes. Last week many a peeress, seated in the visitors' gallery, blushed, during debate upon the bill, at the ribald remarks of many a peer...