Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prepared with quiet glee for the maiden speech of 66-year-old Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," who has been a peer for 20 years without ever venturing to take his seat. Friends of the porcine, thick-lipped Viscount claim that he is thin-skinned and shy. Two months ago peppery Major General Baron Mottistone of Mottistone proposed that Hearstian Rothermere should be "expelled" from the House of Lords unless he "apologized" for his newsorgans' "distortion of facts...
Completely on their own, they will study drama with the Theater Guild, dancing with professional dancers, science in clinics, social service in settlement houses and the Emergency Relief Administration. Government students will peer behind the scenes at Washington; marine biologists will peer through glass-bottomed boats off Bermuda. While music students make a round of concerts, art students will browse through galleries or attach themselves as apprentices to artists. A few intrepid girls will tend spindles in hosiery mills. At the end of February they will all be back on their Vermont campus at the foot of Mount Anthony...
...correspondents who had to turn out daily conference stories whether the sessions were closed or open. That the world was flooded with press stories which did Great Britain's standing no harm seemed, at the time, a cheap price to pay for such daily assistance from the publishing peer...
Anitra's Dance (M. E. Bute) is five minutes of film in which appears no person, no utilitarian thing. It is an attempt to provoke emotion by the dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...
...Britain's great mathematicians is a bony, bulge-browed Peer named Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell of Kingston Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley & Ardsalla. He is also famed as a philosopher, logician, pacifist, historian, author, lecturer. But it is doubtful if the name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news...