Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns and formed up behind as escort. When the Indianapolis arrived in Buenos Aires, President Justo and practically the entire Argentine and U. S. delegations to the Peace Conference were on the dock in top hats and full official regalia. "Mi amigo!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt as he seized his peer's hand and did one of his "great guy" acts. For five miles from the landing place to the U. S. Embassy, President Justo and ten carloads of officials escorted Franklin Roosevelt through a storm of flowers hurled by crowds who had come by rail and motor car from...
...Duchess of York was the daughter of a peer and as such enjoyed before her marriage the courtesy title Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. She was none the less technically a commoner. Upon her marriage she assumed the rank and style of her husband, namely she is a princess of the United Kingdom with the style Royal Highness...
...make R.O.T.C. acceptable to colleges interested in learning and not in snappy uniforms, the War Department has lumped together an assortment of unrelated subjects and called the whole thing "Military Science." The label of "science" is supposed to make the study of war the peer of the legitimate sciences. Somehow the assumed title of science elevates the R.O.T.C. above mere drilled routine and places it in the society of real institutions of learning...
...Sutpen's oldest son actually contemplated an incestuous marriage with his half-sister, with her brother's consent, or if he means this powerful chapter to be interpreted only as a sign of Quentin's fevered dreaming. At the end of Quentin's attempt to peer into the past he is left trembling and frightened at what his imagination has called...
...Spanish dwellings, bounded by the Mississippi River, and Canal, Esplanade and Rampart Streets. It has been successively favored as a home for convicts, aristocrats, thieves and prostitutes, Italian immigrants, artists and writers, and at one time had an international reputation as a red-light district without a peer. Last week Herbert Asbury (The Barbary Coast, The Gangs of New York) offered a 455-page volume in which these mutations in the life of the French Quarter were painstakingly recorded, together with a mass of miscellaneous information and legend on the city as a whole that gave The French Quarter some...