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Word: peering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Queensway | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Conservative," wrote Sir Oswald to the peer who has been his chief backer. "We Black Shirts are Fascists. . . . You would like us to abandon the creed of Fascism and the word Fascist. We cannot do this because it is a creed which means everything in the world to us." He expounded three principles of action in which he believes and Lord Rothermere apparently does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Retreat from Mosley | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...look forward to greater gains on behalf of orderly progress for honest labor and honest industry." Nevertheless it seemed likely that NRA would take seriously the objections raised against it, would give its organization a thoroughgoing overhauling during the summer when Congress would no longer be in Washington to peer over the mechanics' shoulders. Reported, but denied by General Johnson as "pure fabrications" which "might as well have been written in a padded cell,"were insistent predictions that all but some 25 basic codes for big industries would be junked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Half Way Post | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn face, had visited the U. S. Senate, steered by California's Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moma & Momo | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

Yellow are the racing colors, the motor cars, and the silk hats of footmen in the service of "The Yellow Earl," Britain's beloved sporting peer the Earl of Lonsdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yellow Earl | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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