Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the back room of the principal saloon of Red Gap, Washington. Ruggles (Charles Laughton) is sitting at a table with his erratic master, Egbert Froud, and he is facing the crisis of his life. Six months before, he was valet to a British peer who lost him, in a game of draw poker, to the first family of Red Gap. In Red Gap, a combination of unhappy circumstances has caused Ruggles to be regarded not as a servant but as an aristocratic British colonel. "When people think you are a personage, you become...
...Since the War Peers and Peeresses going bankrupt have averaged seven per year, but efforts to keep them out of jail nearly always succeed and no Peer or Peeress was in jail last week. In February 1934 His Grace the Duke of Leinster barely escaped incarceration by paying his irate tailor...
COLLECTED POEMS-C. Day Lewis- Random House ($2.50). Poems and an essay by another young English paladin, peer and pal of Poets W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender (see below...
...moving. With Lieder her abundant temperament sometimes gets the best of her. Opera suits her better. In Tannhäuser her exuberant Elisabeth dominates the stage. In Die Meistersinger she becomes the youthful ingenuous heroine whom Wagner imagined. As Sieglinde in Die Walküre she has no living peer. Next month Manhattan's critics will have their first chance to pass on her Tosca...
...pass back over the new bridge, ride around the Lincoln Memorial, peer into the eyes of the Lincoln statue, and think it a bit too cold for his nature...