Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight is Maine Night at the Pops Concert which will take place at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: 1. March, "On to Bangor" R. R. Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
Ishbel Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. One of the noted philanthropists of Great Britain, Lady Aberdeen has shared her husband's pleasant duties as Governor General of Canada and his exacting labors as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He is senior peer of Scotland. She, Ishbel Maria Majoribanks Gordon, is the mother of two sons and one daughter. Her life-has been spent in good works, notably in services for Canadian women. She belongs to many clubs, such as the Onward and Upward Association, the National Health Association of Ireland, Lady Aberdeen has been President of the International Council...
...final, so far as the House of Lords is concerned. The King, who is still the fountain of honor, can himself recognize a peerage claim by issuing a writ of summons to the claimant, but he never does so now. If he did, the House could not refuse the peer a seat; but, could?and doubtless would, if it disproved the King's action?refuse to grant him the precedence to which the date of his dignity entitled...
This new doctrine did not appeal to women, who preferred the picturesque material brightness of Hinduism, but it developed the fighting man. Hardy, victory-or-die, well-disciplined sort of fellow, the Sikh has become without peer the greatest soldier in Asia. Him the British found hardest to conquer. Having conquered him, they found him their great military asset overseas. In Shanghai and other treaty ports of China, the only constabulary are the long-haired, short-drawered Sikhs.* And, in India, it is the Sikhs who keep the peace...
...George V bestowed the dignity of an earldom upon the Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Premier of Great Britain and Ireland from 1908 to 1915-the longest period of time that the office has been held by one man since the Ministry of Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). The new peer chose the historic title of Earl of Oxford*, and His Majesty's sanction for the revival of that title was obtained...