Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street Offences, 1927, etc., etc. At present he heads a committee...
...Craned their necks to peer at Professor Albert Einstein who walked into the distinguished strangers' gallery wearing a white linen suit while his friend, Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson M. P., flayed Hitlerite persecution of Jews, offered a bill to extend to Jewish refugees greater facilities for obtaining British citizenship...
...Aired the issue of British tariffs in a pointed debate between Baron Arnold, free trade Labor peer, and the Earl Stanhope, Conservative champion of the National Government...
...husband was a Kansas City auto salesman anxious to help but untutored in the art of expertizing paintings. Last week, while Lord Duveen in his scarlet cloak and cocked hat entered the House of Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present a trunkful of new evidence to prove that his wife...
Scot MacDonald made no rejoinder, flew north to enjoy a short vacation in the soothing air of Lossiemouth. He left to heavy-jowled Deputy Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the defense of their Government, which was suddenly attacked last week not only by the sharp-tongued Labor Peer but by a solid phalanx of Tory diehards. The Tories had three complaints: agitation against the Government's lukewarm policy in India, failure to take a half-promised sixpence off the income tax, and a demand for the removal of the heavy land tax imposed in 1931 by Philip Snowden as Chancellor...