Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominion's Office in London never published the commission's formal report. But last week in London the commission's chairman, Labor Peer Lord Ammon, put his own recommendations on record. He rejected as "unacceptable" the solution for Newfoundland's problems most often proposed by outsiders: confederation with Canada...
...Irish peer, Harrow and Sandhurst bred, Alexander epitomizes Britain's professional officer class. Cultured, athletic, politely indifferent to publicity, he has been content to fight two wars, let the honors fall where they may. Field Marshal (then General) Sir Bernard L. Montgomery won the glory of North Africa, but behind his brilliant tactics was the brilliant strategy of his chief-Alexander. In Italy, too, Alexander stayed in the background, let Generals Mark W. Clark of the Fifth and Sir Oliver Leese of the Eighth win the headlines in the long march up the peninsula of Italy...
...Lord Lyell, 30, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valor in North Africa last year. Lord Lyell lived as a Scottish laird, died in a bayonet grapple inside a German gun pit. He was the first peer to win Britain's highest award in World War II, the fifth ever...
...Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 32, son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, Scotland's No. 1 peer. A boxer who captained Oxford, he married Prunella Stack (Britain's "Perfect Girl"), with whom he toured Britain preaching physical fitness. Their son, born in July 1940, was a "perfect boy." Last August, Squadron Leader Douglas-Hamilton was shot down, killed...
Charwomen and Queens. Peer Gynt's social glitter was in sharp contrast to the audiences the Old Vic had been used to -the long-haired, sandaled Bohemians, the cockneys, charwomen and ancients in Inverness capes who sat raptly on hard wooden benches and glared at anyone who even shuffled his feet. But in far-off days the old theater had known glitter...