Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard dormitories--merely to mention a notorious example--will appreciate how useful a device must be which automatically and without expenditure of physical energy turns away from his door every socially-inclined acquaintance who presents himself. And as a strategic aid this respected appliance will be without a peer. Suppose, for instance, that an industrious scholar, after an evening of exacting toil, is regaling a few intimates with a case of oranges. All he has to do to secure absolute privacy is to turn the sign to "Go" if that is the word selected to indicate that an intellectual quarantine...
...returned for more metropolitan appearances - its complexion vastly changed. The antagonizing music has almost disappeared. Instead the Scandinavians present a program of familiar sights and sounds, with such harmless medicines as Anitra's Dance from Greig's "Peer Gynt...
...shall be under an additional disadvantage, for we have lost a large number of our best parliamentarians and fighting men. Our former leader, Mondell, will not be with us, nor will Fess, nor Campbell, nor Walsh, nor Stafford, nor Greene, nor Kelley, nor Fordney, nor Reavis, nor?the peer of them all?the late James R. Mann. These were the men who bore the brunt of every battle, and their places will be difficult indeed to fill...
Back to Methuselah, by G. B. Shaw R. U. B., by Karel Capek Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen The Adding Machine, by Elmer L. Rice...
...fascinating to speculate on the possibility of union between the Liberals and the Laborites. Macdonald as Prime Minister with Asquith a peer and on the Woolsack and Lloyd-George Chancellor of the Exchequer pledged to carry out the principle of a capital levy, has all the elements of romance and perhaps just a slender element of possibility. At any rate Mr. Lloyd-George is more concerned in attacking the Conservatives as a "scratch crew of third rate mariners whose sole qualification for their post is that they are also mutineers" than in maligning those who may soon be his bedfellows...