Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven. When her sister married into English society, Elinor visited her, became an immediate success. Her first two seasons brought her three admirers-a bibulous, spluttering peer, a Duke, a millionaire-but they were all unattractive...
...stagnant perplexity during the laboratory period. As for reforming the reading material, we can suggest nothing better than to hustle Professor Frickey over to the nearest publisher and Problems" enlarged to text-book dimensions. If he will retain their leisurely throughness and simplicity, his "Notes" should have no peer on the market. These two basic reforms can raise Economics 21a to one of the best and most worthwhile courses in the department...
Behind the Dictator is the prostrate figure of Ethiopia, and behind Mr. Eden peer coyly from bushes Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also in diaphanous costume and with cupid wings. Cries delighted II Duce in the Daily Worker's caption: "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden...
Such was the obstacle which proved insuperable last week, and there were several others, nearly insuperable and nearly unutterable. A minor and utterable obstacle was that Mrs. Simpson is not the daughter of either a king or a peer...
...scheme for speeding up news. Instead of pigeons, he has a semaphore to flash messages across the English channel. While operating his system, Blake meets a mysterious young English girl (Madeleine Carroll ) at Calais. When she turns out to be Lady Elizabeth Stacy, wife of a foppish young peer (George Sanders), frustrated Blake puts all his energies into Lloyd's. He has made himself head of its most powerful syndicate when his semaphore brings the news that the French have sunk 63 British merchant ships off the Azores. All of Lloyd's insurance men are on the brink...