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Word: peering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams, men with hearts of gold, rise above the ethereal blue and shine! Even though ye be a House divided, ye cannot fall. Turn on the lights. Assert thyselves! Ho! eager men of Eliot, ye Green Knights of metrical romance, where is thy chivalry, thy honor? Gawain is thy peer, no blue haired fairy of Pinochio. Light up! Light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POINT OF HONOR | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

...disappeared. It had been picked up and quietly pocketed by an officer who as quietly produced it to his bug-eyed superiors. Normally the Crown reposes with the Sceptre and other Crown Jewels at the lower of London inside a large, round age with heavy iron bars through which peer visitors watched by "Beefeaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...careful and entirely liquid diet was prescribed by the Royal physicians, of whom Lord Dawson of Penn is the first doctor ever created a peer. Again working with him last week to save George's life with oxygen and every artifice known to science was Nurse Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: King of England | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...last trial of a peer by the House of Lords was 34 years ago, when Lord Russell was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to three months in jail, the usual sentence for a bigamist in England being two years. After serving ten days, Lord Russell was pardoned by King Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Baronial Privilege | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...after the other each peer present rose, bowed with hand on heart to the Throne, and unanimously declared, "Not guilty, upon mine honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Baronial Privilege | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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