Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing he intends to himself discharge the functions of Foreign Secretary, so far as the House of Commons is concerned, the Prime Minister last week made permanent his tentative appointment of Viscount Halifax as Foreign Secretary. As a peer, Halifax cannot enter the Commons, but Labor peers taunted Halifax in the House of Lords: "You are afraid of Italy." Asserting that Britain would win any war "as usual" he retorted: "I am not afraid of Italy or any other country...
...abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer...
...catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay's armor, sweep over decks strewn with wreckage. Movietone's nine-minute release concentrates on the hardship of the survivors' overland escape to safety. Universal's 23-minute three-reeler also gives shots of sacked and burning Nanking...
...year-old Irish peer. Reason for his visit's brevity: Fortnight ago a Paris pickpocket whisked a passport from the right hip pocket of his trousers. Threatened with Ellis Island detention, he roared: "I have no fear of the place. ... I hear they have some new murals...
Maharani; Tom Ransome, lean, good-looking profligate and world-wanderer; Fern Simon, pretty daughter of the resident missionary; Major Safti, brilliant native surgeon, and Miss MacDaid, his head nurse; Lord Esketh, a self-made peer, and his lady; attendant functionaries, members of the garrison, dried-up and dissatisfied English ladies...