Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Result: From within Leader Baldwin's own party he was mocked by Baron Beaverbrook for first swallowing the Canadian scheme whole, then spitting out the wheat kernel. "Baldwin! Baldwin! Again Baldwin!" sneered the press peer in one of his papers. "We want no more of Baldwin!" (Baron Beaverbrook of course advocates food tariffs.) As a matter of expediency the MacDonaid cabinet pigeonholed Canada's straightforward proposal last week in an especially created committee, sorely vexed Canada's Bennett who soon afterward gave a dinner to all important correspondents in London, thereby, perhaps, increasing their sympathy with...
...When it was certain that the Air Minister himself had perished, Mr. MacDonald said: "To me no one can now fill his place of genial companionship and friendship. Only those who have been associated with Lord Thompson know how much the nation has lost." (He was a leading Labor peer in the House of Lords.) Down on their knees in the Parish Church at Sandringham went Their Majesties, prayed feelingly for the 47 dead. "I am horrified," telegraphed George V to Mr. MacDonald, ". . . national disaster . . . serious loss . . . including Lord Thompson, my Air Minister." Among the first to hurry across...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. likes being called "Robot, the Mechanical Man of Golf," better than a lot of other names to which sportswriters, their superlatives utterly exhausted, have had resort. Before and since his appearance in the golfing firmament in 1916 (one year after Percy), he has had no peer but Percy, and making oneself a mechanically perfect golfer-when one is equipped with temper, indolence, misgivings and other frailties to which robots are heir-is as satisfactory, when accomplished, as it is difficult...
With a Scottish peer and a confectioner to accompany him*, that wiliest of Welshmen, David Lloyd George, went to No. 10 Downing Street last week to talk Unemployment with Prime Minister MacDonald and his ministers. Britons soon had rumors aplenty to take their minds off the blistering "American heat...
...duties. Increasingly the proprieties grow upon him, and at last he languidly courts a proper match. Against his will he takes part in the coronation of George V. and Queen Mary, and during its wearisome ceremonies feels that his career as an individual is ended, his career as a peer commenced. Then outside the Abbey he abruptly encounters Anquetil, returned from the jungle to marry Viola on the strength of a six-year correspondence. Anquetil renews his invitation for an exploring expedition. Sebastian accepts. The story ends with an intimation that under the new monarch will come new manners...