Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty to her partner, Fay Cheyney rings the burglar...
Competition for the News Board of the CRIMSON is open to all Freshmen. Competitors will have a chance to report the varied athletic calendar of the winter season, covering such sports as Hockey, Basketball, Swimming Squash, and Polo. They will be able to peer over the shoulders of the College's scientists in their laboratories as new developments occur. They will follow the progress in widely diverse fields of endeavor, from the powerful telescope of the Astronomical Observatory to the flying field activities of Aerial Photography...
...House did not dignify Communist Gallacher by shouting him down, as it dignified Edward VIII's champion Winston Churchill during the Crisis (TIME, Dec. 14), but there were cries of "No! No!" last week and that fiery Irish peer, Earl Winterton, livid with fury, growled at Communist Gallacher: "Such suggestions as yours can only be the product of a disordered brain...
...tangled on the darkened roads, while hundreds of oil trucks were given the right of way, carrying fuel to the smudges. All this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save for oil, the biggest business in the State). The crop destruction had only one peer, the Great Freeze of 1913-In that year, according to tradition, "practically the entire crop" was destroyed. Actually, fruit shipments from California fell about 60%. Last week first guesses were that the Freeze of 1937 had ruined at least half the crop...
...highly self-appreciative Earl of Lonsdale celebrated his 80th birthday by describing how in 1879 he "most certainly" outboxed the late, great Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan. Famed for his loud habit of bawling to British traffic policemen, "Can't you see I'm LONSDALE!", the loud Peer boasted: "I shall be glad to give any details I can of my encounter with 'Jim' Sullivan. ... I knocked him out in just under six rounds. I had a broken hand when I did it. . ... It was kept a most extraordinary secret." Leftist voters of Lille elected...