Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bench in Bow Street Court last week Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sir Rollo Frederick Graham-Campbell fidgeted beneath his robes and wig. Royal Dukes, Archbishops and Dukes are the top dogs of the British peerage, and below Sir Rollo, quietly awaiting judgment as a prisoner, stood that jovial, ruddy sporting peer, His Grace the Duke of Atholl, lord of 200,000 Scottish acres, master of the only private army in Great Britain and a War hero who won by conspicuous bravery in action...
...Well, it was sad, in a sad, sentimental sort of way, to peer up through the ropes of the scaffold and compare the Loughran and the Sharkey of that moment with, the boys as we knew them when Loughran used to be called the pretty one, He started fighting at the age of 15, which was 16 years ago, an uncommonly handsome, upstanding kid with the poise of a statue and nice teeth and hard, flat belly with the muscles laid over one another like the sections of an armadillo's shell...
...well, and Rogers is close on Francisco's heels. The guard prospects are the best in a long time with four men almost equally matched. Gulian and Schumann are the choices at present but it might as well be Healey and Gundlach. Casal misses the call of being a peer of the foregoing quartet by a hair, but ought to be up in there shortly. Center is now being held down by Crane, but he is being pushed hard for the post by Brad Simmons...
...dozen Japanese, led by browbeaten Liberal Peer Inazo Nitobe, and including an intransigent retired Major-General named Yasunosuke Sato...
...Yedo with four gunboats, the first commercial treaty between Japan and the U. S. was signed. If Gosuke's honorable father ever thought of any connection between the two events, he certainly did not conceive that the result would be 1) Gosuke becoming a multimillionaire; 2) Gosuke becoming peer of Japan; 3) Gosuke at the age of 75 going, in a silk suit, as suitor to the gunboat country...