Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the twelfth floor of the Institute, a hundred noted psychiatrists and neurologists gathered in the library, wandered into the small, wood-paneled room that houses the only Freud collection in the world, to peer at the worn volumes, the sarcastic marginal notes, the underscorings and brilliant comments...
...bolsters the courage of the War Liberals, for it would appear that a democratizing process is really under way there. Labor has increased its voice in the government councils, taxation is having a levelling effect, and the morale of the old reactionary ruling group seems to have been shaken. Peer and pauper are getting to know each other in the chummy atmosphere of a bomb shelter...
Anglo-American. As a symbol of Anglo-American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother...
Wodehouse usually anchors his cloud-cuckoo land in Shropshire, Sussex and London. Dominating the loony Wodehouse landscape are two hoary eminences-Blandings Castle and its proprietor, "that amiable and boneheaded peer," the ninth Earl of Emsworth. In the course of some 40 years of nonsense, the multiple Wodehouse nitwits and their overlapping, interlacing misadventures have come to revolve more & more dizzily around Blandings. Hence only confirmed Wodehousians are sure if the stories are one great inspiration or several. Experts incline to recognize four...
...Lord Rothermere retired as chairman of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., turned the management of his properties over to young Esmond. Three years ago he gave up business completely. Last spring the man who took Northcliffe's place as Britain's Press Peer No. 1-gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with...