Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boris is, of course, descended from the excessively blue-blooded Bourbon and Coburg stock. One of his great-grandfathers was Louis Philippe. The House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...
Witless of the Japanese proverb, "A grain of rice is riches to a starving man," one Nassib Makaram, leader of Syrian tribesmen, rolled in his palm a grain of white rice. He, Sheik Nassib Makaram, was famed from Damascus to Cairo, was called the calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would...
...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...
...Ambassador, was of course responsible for the presentation of U. S. maids and matrons, daughters and wives either of members of the diplomatic corps or of intrinsically potent fathers, husbands. By special dispensation of the Lord Chamberlain, these gentlemen were permitted?for the first time?to peer from the door of an anteroom upon the ceremony. None were themselves presented...
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