Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princess Louise, widow of the Duke of Argyll married that Scottish peer when he was Marquis of Lome, accompanied him to Canada when he was made Governor-General of this Dominion, and presided graciously over Rideau Hall at Ottawa for some years...
...year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians call the Old Deal...
...Standard Oil filtered into the stockmarket after the Trust's dissolution, they were whooped skyward on the sudden realization that the value of the operating properties had been understated by hundreds of millions. As an efficient, consistent money-making machine, the Standard Oil organization has never had a peer...
Monday Evening, May 24 *Coronation MarchMeyerbeer *Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven *The Flight of the Bumble-bee Rimsky-Korsakov *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni *"Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg Morning Mood--Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King *Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanovici *Prelude in G minor Rachmaninoff *Carioca Youmans...
...ranging from the Daily Herald, a Labor paper with over 2,000,000 circulation, to Debrett's (Britain's Social Register). Fleet Street newshawks have long been certain of one fact about elusive Publisher Elias-that for years he has coveted a title, to become formally the peer of Britain's only two comparable press tycoons, Barons Beaverbrook (Daily Express) and Rothermere (Daily Mail). Julius Salter Elias' dream came true last week. In the Coronation Honors List he was down for a barony...