Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan- Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun and Oswaldestre, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England (TIME, June 10). The diffident Duke, who in addition to his titles is the chief Roman Catholic peer in Great Britain, has been schooled entirely by private nurses and tutors. He flunked the entrance examinations at Oxford, but served as a subaltern in-the Royal Horse Guards. He breeds horses as a hobby. His titles make him one of the Great Officers of State, ranking only fourth below...
...telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals in the Big Numbers Territory, next day went inland to see the cannibal village. No longer friendly, Nagapate's men seized them and were getting ready to eat them when...
...Class One--those young women who peer at the world through spectacles, convex, concave, or prismatic: who wear the good old-fashioned shirtwaist, and the skirt with the scalloped hem line: who discourse learnedly on economics and classical philology; and who face life behind the bulwark of a summa. We know there must be such, because we have heard of them. We have, however, yet to meet...
...Methodist brethren for the length of its Red occupancy. Just as their fathers had rushed to look at Mr. Barnum's embalmed whale and Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, Boston reporters, vaguely aware of the importance of this Soviet-U. S. ship transfer, hurried down to peer at 60 genuine Russian communists. Those who expected to find bearded Moujiks in Russian blouses and felt boots were thoroughly disappointed...
...Only one other Labor peer was created last week, Major Dudley Leigh Aman, by profession a wireless expert, who did yeoman service as a speaker during the last General election. With Baron Ponsonby and Baron Aman the number of Laborites in the House of Lords is now 14, as against approximately 500 Conservatives and 90 Liberals. It had been rumored that Scot MacDonald would "advise" (i.e. instruct) the King to create 100 Labor peers, but the public excitement sure to follow such a perfectly justifiable move was deemed not worth risking until Labor has an overwhelming majority in the House...