Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another late arrival was lanky Owen D. Young who came about 11 p. m. in full dress, accompanied by Thomas William Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. Looking taller than usual in his full dress, Mr. Young paused to peer down at and converse with small, able Isidor Kresel, counsel for Bank of United States, also the busy new special investigator of New York's magistracy scandals. Shortly before 3 a. m. Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman came, was hurriedly ushered into the conference room by James Herbert Case, chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
Reason for Their Lordships' apathy: Lord Winterton is not one of them, but an Irish peer, and moreover a Conservative...
Grumbled because they could not even watch the Indian Round Table Conference, held in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords from the balcony of that hall. Reason: the haughty Indian princes would not stomach that any spectator, even a peer of the realm, should sit on a higher level than themselves...
...Austen Chamberlain, the only Knight of the Garter to win the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) and the only K. G. who is not a peer, sat with the crimson-&-blue-robed Knights who boast themselves "the oldest order of knighthood in the world...
...christening, but Scotsmen were roiled. Ten-week-old Margaret Rose, second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, was the first child in line for the throne to be born in Scotland for more than 300 years (TIME, Sept. 1). Her mother is the daughter of a Scotch peer, her first name is a royal Scots name, Caledonians claim her as their Princess. They were incensed that the christening had not taken place on Scotch soil...