Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That technicality made it necessary for de Clifford to be tried by the House of Lords, since under the Magna Charta a peer indicted for treason or a felony which includes homicide, rape, bigamy, burglary, robbery, larceny, counterfeiting and forgery must be tried by his peers. Such a trial costs thousands of dollars and, since the county in which the crime is supposed to have taken place must pay, a tradition exists for piling on every expense that can be thought of. For last week's trial, which cost some $50,000, it was not enough to install...
Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers- i.e. a commoner by a jury of twelve commoners, a lord by the House of Lords. In 1901 occurred the last trial of a peer by his peers, that of Earl Russell who was convicted of bigamy and received the light sentence on which a peer can traditionally count, three months in jail...
...House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across his knee in token that the trial of a peer is over...
Since the gold coronets usually worn by peers at the opening of Parliament will not do for a trial, Noble Lords were bustling anxiously about London last week trying to rent the requisite cocked hats. When all these had been rented, extortionate London hatters charged luckless lords who had to buy cocked hats $60 each. Since popular temper was rising sharply against forcing the taxpayers of Surrey to spend $50,000 in order that a peer charged with felony may receive, at most, a wrist-slapping sentence, attorneys for unpopular Lord de Clifford announced that he "cannot" waive his mandatory...
...play a flute with uncommon skill, but it was not the wooden instrument his colleagues knew. The young Frenchman played a silver flute. Of the 30,000 professional flautists now in the U. S., all but five use an instrument of silver or some cheaper metal. But Georges Barrere, peer of them all, has gone two steps ahead. Ten years ago he took to playing on a $1,000 gold flute. Last week, for the first time in Manhattan, he demonstrated a flute made of platinum. Price...