Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peers are usually created on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, although it is not an unconstitutional act for the King to create a peer or elevate one to a higher rank without the advice of his First Minister, especially when dealing with Royal Blood. Usually the Prime Minister makes a list of people recommended to the Crown for honors, and with the King's assent the list is published on such days as the Sovereign's Birthday, New Year's Day or any special day of national significance...
...Russian Church by making a factional fight. Many of the peasants and clergy are behind the old order of things in the patriarchate. They have a strong point of canon law in their favor in the fact that no patriarch can be deposed without the written consent of his peer. This written consent the radicals failed to obtain from Tikhon's peer, Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of Constantinople, and from him the quasi Patriarch of Moscow is now said to be seeking aid and comfort. But the Most Rev. Metataxis is himself in trouble, owing to the Turks...
...Norwegian program" of numbers to be played at the "Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen 2. Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner 3. Waltz, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Strauss 4. Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg 6. Saeterjentens Sondag ("Solitude on the Mountain") Ole Bull 7. "Valse Triste" Sibelius 8. Carnival in Paris Svendsen 9. "Ekko fra Norden", Selection of Norwegian Airs Wick 10. Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj(Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ) 11. Procession of Bacchus Delibes
...George Nathaniel Curzon: he's a very particular person" and the tradition of aloofness has remained despite a record of diplomacy and statesmanship of which any commoner might be proud. It is small wonder, then, that the Labor party hinted that it would resent the appointment of a peer, "so alien to the aspirations of democracy", reposing luxuriously in the House of Lords well out of reach of Labor's official opposition...
...PEER GYNT? Ibsen's lyric of rebellion and ambition. Joseph Schildkraut plays the magnificent, ineffectual rebel. He drinks the joys of insurrection and finally tastes its dregs because he is not great enough to be a Prometheus or a Satan...