Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current General Magazine and Historical-Chronicle (quarterly) of the Pennsylvania alumni association. Therein, Dean Emory R. Johnson reported that he had, during a recent visit to Chufu, in the Province of Shantung, China, invited as a matriculant to the University of Pennsylvania a young gentleman whose genealogy has no peer for well-authenticated length or world-wide distinction, Duke K'ung, aged 6. The Duke is 72-times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder...
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...Reay, Chief of the Scottish Clan of Mackay, self-exiled in the Netherlands because of a feud between his ancestors and Charles (1600-1649), summoned his relatives to celebrate his "coming of age." Proud, they beheld him stand before them, 6 ft., 9 in. in his stockings, "the tallest peer...
...Free State Finance Minister Ernest Blythe, brusque, intimated that he might offer the U. S. mint the job of striking 100% Irish coins. Arlington Street is one of the shortest and most august in London's West End. Every house on the street is the property of a peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest...
...Monument. Japanese hearkened with approval last week as the great Viscount Shibusawa, "the Morgan of Japan," founder of the Dai-ichi Ginko (First National Bank) of Japan, organizer of the world spanning Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Mail Line), financier, industrialist, philanthropist, first "businessman" ever to be created a Japanese peer, announced at Tokyo that he will unveil the Harris Monument in the presence of U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh...