Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their decision there is no appeal. No rule or regulation can surpass the finality of the Exchange's famed blanket clause: "A member who shall have been adjudged . . . guilty of conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade, may be suspended or expelled." Its only peer is the 95th Article of War, with its famed phrase "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman...
...chairman of the World Committee to Aid the Victims of the German Fascism, Lord Marley is touring this country in an effort to being the force of intelligent public opinion to bear on the present German government. Well known throughout Europe, the British peer is considered an authority on his subject as well as a brilliant speaker and a sincere proponent of liberalism and justice...
...sprightly Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales was Viscount Halifax who lay dead last week at 95. In Hickleton Hall with many another mourner for the funeral was his son and successor who as Lord Irwin was recently Viceroy of India. Friends and relatives of the dead peer took no particular notice when a group of resolute men marched into the Hall, dragged packing cases containing family heirlooms out to the lawn, broke them open, took their pick and went their way. After someone detected this amazing theft, the funeral was held amid suppressed excitement and Lord Halifax...
...second son, the Duke of York, is in direct line to mount the throne as Queen Elizabeth. She was welcomed to the circus last week by a jovial fellow who could easily cut the figure of a wide-mouthed clown, were he not the Empire's principal sporting peer, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Knight of the Garter and Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland...
...could have found no words. One can no longer put an edge on the verbal sword, and dash up intellectual Bunker Hills; if one did, one would trip over the scabbard. Any one who tries to give battle at the present day can echo the despairing words of Peer Gynt: "It's like a fight among bears, half-asleep and snarling." The fact is, there's nothing to hit, and if one hits it, it doesn't care. Yesterday Britain and Italy demanded that Germany return to the League and to the arms parley: Germany only withdrew in the first...