Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This able peer was never so happy as when pushing through Hyde Park in a pram his infant son, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes, now grown big enough to toddle. Defending Prince George against literary scoffers, Baron Gorell, a partner in the publishing house of John Murray, cried: "We should all heartily back the stand taken by His Royal Highness. I am told, moreover, that interest in what we used to call...
...prisoner's stolid, blanketed kinsmen sat in the sun outside the courthouse, occasionally rising to peer curiously through the windows at a ritual they did not understand. Some of the more adventurous found a place in Globe where "the picture that dances" was being exhibited. Cinema ushers had to limit them to two performances in succession for one admission...
...members of the House of Lords own almost one-tenth of all the land in England, Scotland and Wales, stated The Labor Magazine last week. Members of the House of Lords also hold over twice as many company directorships as Members of the House of Commons. The mythical "average peer" holds if directorships, is one-half a Board Chairman...
...their trade than many of their confreres, the prestige of the contemporary Barrymores rests upon one trait which they have in common: a magnificent stage presence which they inherit from their father, the late Maurice Barrymore, who was born Herbert Blythe and took his stage name from an Irish peer who was one of his ancestors. Where John Barrymore is elegant, faintly satiric and irrepressibly nonchalant, his brother is curt, surly, emphatic. At 53 (three years older than John), Lionel usually plays the roles of elderly but vigorous personages. He exercises his prerogative of giving most of them the same...
...week. Still rich, popular, he will continue to greet genially many of the world's prominent, some of its eminent, within the ur bane doors of his "American Bar" on the Rue Fontaine, Paris. Here may be seen a beauteous cinemactress flirting coyly with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with a satin-lined casket at Scarsdale...