Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March, "Greetings to Bangor"R. B. Hall *Overture to "Oberon" Weber *Valse Triste Sibelius *"Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Fourth Symphony: Scherzo--pizzicato ostinato Tchaikovsky *Bolero Ravel *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *"Espana," Waltz Waldteufel *Maine "Stein Song" Fenstadt Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Though he was personally responsible for the Laborite victory, though he will run the County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office he appointed one Lewis Silkin to chairman...
...Rinconada, Spain, what sounded like a low-flying plane sent Jose Megia, 13, running out from family dinner to peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...undertaking, "Men of Good Will." These four books, (two volumes, in the American edition, of which the second is "Passion's Pilgrims") constitute a sort of prologue to the narrative which is to follow. In the second volume Romains again shows himself absolute master of the kaleidoscopic novel, the peer of Dos Passos at his best and even of James Joyce in the penetration and fertility of his imagination. Threads in the lives of his multitude of characters are picked up at intervals and followed long enough to make clear the peculiar problems of each, both in their relation...
...British peer described some of the more common methods of extracting "information." "These examples have all been verified by members of the committee working within Germany. To prepare a victim for 'questioning' the men are first beaten severely. They are either lashed for a period of about three hours with long telescopic steel whips which leaves their flesh in ribbons, or they are beaten with heavy rubber truncheons which do not break the skin but inflict terrible internal injuries from which the men rarely recover. The women are often given over to Nazi soldiers. We have in our possession medical...