Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvardians will include in their program "Russian Fantasy" an arrangement of Tschaikowsky's Fourth Symphony, and the Song of the Volga Boatmen; Grieg's, "Peer Gynt Suite", Tschaikowsky's "June," chaminade's "Scarf Dance" and, "Fantasie Orientale" which includes Rinsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" and Caesar Cni's "Orientale...
...opposing moundsman will be chosen from Davidson and Fons. Neither of these hurlers compare with Owen Carroll, the peer of Purple pitchers, who held away on college diamonds several years ago, but both are reliable and occasionally turn in a sterling performance. Fons proved capable of downing the Crimson forces last spring and may repeat his feat this year...
...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...
...held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner
...like the House of Lords in doing nothing in particular and doing it very well. It generally further resembles the House of Lords in being chosen from the upper strata of society, and for service of one sort or another to the commonwealth. For the peer this service may consist in amassing enough money to buy a Derby winner and supply campaign funds; the student council member may have run the Barwell ends ragged, or may have shut out Yates...