Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received into their House the King's youngest son Prince George, technically a "commoner" until he took his seat last week. Loudly the Clerk read the new peer's letters patent from George V, creating Prince George "Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick...
...went into Scovill as an errand boy during the Civil War, was president from the turn of the Century to the end of the War. Present head of Scovill is Edward Otis Goss, an affable hard-headed Yankee of 69 who is Waterbury's first citizen and a peer in the Connecticut industrial realm. Below him are four Goss vice presidents, most important of whom is his brother John, Scovill's general manager. And below the official Gosses are countless lesser Gosses learning the business...
...likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early 30's, has no peer among U. S. torchsingers...
Last February Jose Clemente Orozco, one-armed peer of Diego Rivera, signed and dated the last of his 15 great frescoes on the walls of Dartmouth's new Baker Library (TIME, Feb. 26). Then Dartmouth settled down to contemplate in awe or anger the largest fresco unit in the U.S. Keynote of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth...
Died. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Lord Devonport, 78, "first grocer to become a peer," head of International (chain) Stores, Britain's onetime War Food Controller; at Dunkald, Scotland...