Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been hard on the elite of Bucharest. The full and ample bellies of the great have shrunk. Once Bucharest had no peer in the confection of flaky pastries stuffed with creams, no rival in the sticky sweet aroma of the boulevards and bright cafes, aswarm with men & women who perfumed themselves instead of taking baths...
...with more crushing effect until the final victory is assured." At the present moment, he added, "It is not the Government's intention to drop bombs on the precincts of Vatican City, nor, if it can be avoided, on the city of Rome." Then a Roman Catholic peer, Viscount FitzAlan, added: "I have the greatest possible affection for the present holder of the high office of Pope and I should deprecate strongly any thing that might put him to any personal inconvenience. At the same time we can not be blind to the fact that whatever may happen...
Died. John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...
...purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...
...every 4.6 people) ate the parliamentary broadcasts up. Farmers fought their wives over the question of where to put the radio: dairy, barn or kitchen. Prime Minister Savage's pear-shaped tone and forthright manner quickly made him their favorite broadcaster. Conservatives have yet to produce his peer...