Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Investigation disclosed that the woman thus spared was the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Psychologists wearily pointed out that, like so many actual assassins, she was not only demented but known to be demented not only by her family but by all who knew...
...Viceroy is, by custom, always a peer...
...English knights of the pen who have written about him. Two of Sir James Barrie's observations are justly famous: "The first time I ever saw Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh when I was a student, and I flung a clod of earth at him. He was a peer; those were my politics...
...mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week a boy of 14, Farnan Parker of Anderson, Ind., stepped into his plane and flew from his home to Philadelphia. He took his time, stopping twice en route, arriving in 18 hours. His mother...
Soul Mates. Aileen Pringle is a leading lady for whom many discerning persons can rouse little enthusiasm. Perhaps it is because she so often plays in poor pictures, this one for example. It is about an English girl who for convenience married an English peer, who finally won her love, honor, obedience. Elinor Glyn is the author...