Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williamsburg, Va., surpasses any in the country; likewise the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, is comparable to any. The Universities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia have buildings and grounds which could scarcely be finer in cultural and historic atmosphere. The College of Charleston (S. C.) is without a peer among city colleges. My own alma mater, the University of the South (the Oxford of America) at Sewanee, Tenn., with its 10,000-acre campus, the largest in the U. S.. yet one of the smallest colleges (30 men), with its Magdalen College Tower and other Gothic buildings...
...Britain, was personally responsible for bringing to Canada his Big-Business friend the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General. Lord Bessborough is the first vice-regal occupant of Rideau Hall to have been chosen by George V on the advice of a Canadian premier. He is the fourth Irish peer to be Canada's Governor General. As a businessman Lord Bessborough was said last week to have collaborated in drafting the "Provisional Agenda" which Premier Bennett made ready for the Conference after consulting all His Majesty's governments in all parts of the British Commonwealth...
Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...
March from "Der Obersteiger" by Zeller; Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Nicolai; Valse Triste, by Sibelius; Peer Gynt, Suite, by Grieg; Ballet Suite by Gluck-Mottl; Ave Maria (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz--Harp, Organ, and Strings); Ouverture Solennelle, "1812," by Tchaikovsky; Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waitz, by Strauss; "Tannhauser," Introduction and Song of the Evening Star (Violoncello solo: J. Langendoen) by Wagner; "Tannhauser," Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, by Strauss...
Died, Lord William Henry John North, 95, foxhunter. oldest British peer, great-grandson of George Ill's Prime Minister during the American Revolution; of old age; in his home, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, England. Last surviving godchild of Queen Adelaide, consort to William IV, Lord North branched from the same stem as Theodore Roosevelt, who once, on a ranch in North Dakota, rescued Lord North's son when his horse fell into a gully...