Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There at the State Theatre they saw a rollicking performance of Peer Gynt (1867), the play which takes its name from a hero who typifies the convivial weaknesses which Ibsen thought that he detected in many of his countrymen...
...dead Earl. He had left positive instructions. Therefore his body was quietly removed, last week, from his Berkshire estate to the neighboring little Church of All Saints. With none but members of his immediate family present the service was performed by the Bishop of Oxford. Later the peer who was called "Lord Oxford" by all, including the King, was interred in the little country graveyard of All Saints...
...mock, last week, of seven wise Britons who set sail as an august commission to India. Patriotic, they will slave for more than a year, voluntarily, at a thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary for War in the MacDonald Labor Cabinet. The seventh, their Chairman...
Craning from countless small balconies, Romans peered and cheered ecstatically. They cheered the Amir, peered at his consort and their daughters. So there were Afghan amazons, the kind of women who, when a soldier is wounded, "come out to cut up what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave...
...sentence of good English. But it would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke or his peer at grammar could write the New York Times another letter pointing out that the Coolidge renomination question is now definitely settled in the negative, since "I will not" expresses determination whereas "I shall not" would have been simple prediction...