Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First brush between Captain January and the truant officer occurs when Star is haled to the village school to take an examination. Here, while Captain January and his friend Nazro (Slim Summerville) stand on a rain barrel and peer through the schoolhouse window, Star distinguishes herself. She makes the young nephew of the truant officer, being questioned simultaneously, appear doltish by comparison, gains credentials for the third grade. As lighthouse inspector, Captain Nazro has the sad duty of telling Captain January that, because his light is being mechanized, he must join the unemployed. This means that poor little Star...
...dramatic emulation of a heavy dance-drama it rises to a genuine pitch of satirical excellence. "The Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet gives Mr. Bolger fine opportunity to demonstrate his terpsichorean genius and ends up in a screamingly funny bit of farce. This Bolger fellow hasn't a peer in soft-shoe dancing...
...that the Supreme Court void the sale by that company of a transmission line to TVA on the ground that TVA was unconstitutional. The long-awaited hour had come. The crowd craned their necks to catch every word. The Chief Justice spoke with unusual deliberation, pausing now & then to peer at his audience. The first question, he explained, was whether the property of the minority stockholders was endangered, whether they had a right to sue. He declined to let any technicality stand in the way of their right to sue, declaring: "We should not seek to find means of avoiding...
...Prepared as an aftermath of the de Clifford manslaughter case (TIME, Dec. 16 et seq.) to abolish the right of an accused lord to trial by his peers. Reason: taxpayers object to forking up the $50,000 such trials can cost. Introducing a motion to brand the right of a peer to trial by the House of Lords as "archaic," Bachelor Viscount Sankey, recently Lord Chancellor, last week declared...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...