Word: peering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here and there, a hairdresser rushed to a stately town house for a 5 a.m. appointment to arrange a peeress' coiffure. Special trains shuttled underground from South Kensington to Westminster Station to take dignitaries to the Abbey in time for the 8:30 closing of doors. The "Peers' Specials" were crammed with lords clutching cardboard boxes containing their robes and coronets, with pages suffering the chilly embarrassment of tights. At the Abbey entrance, a coronet fell from one peer's hand, clattering along the wet pavement until a soldier retrieved...
Around the Pentagon, as well as among flyers in Korea, there was considerable wisecracking about the offer. In Britain's House of Lords, an excitable Labor peer announced that he regarded it as dastardly to bribe the enemy to commit treason...
...portrait sculptor, Jo Davidson had no peer in the U.S., and his bounce was as remarkable as his skill. He set himself no less a task than to sculpt "a plastic history of my time," and the hundreds of notables who sat for him ranged from Joseph Conrad to Frank Sinatra, from Gandhi to Mussolini. A little more than a year ago, at 68, bush-bearded Jo Davidson journeyed to Israel and found inspiration for some of his best busts. The new nation, he said, "confirmed my belief that life is eternal. It was like a phoenix rising...
...Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 42, a pitcher who knew no peer (and was the first to admit it) during the rowdy days of the famed St. Louis Cardinal "Gas House Gang" in the '30s. The last pitcher in either league to win 30 games in one season (1934), Ol' Diz also holds the National League strike-out record (17 in one game), wound up his flamboyant career with 150 victories, 83 losses. After his pitching days were cut short by an injury in 1937, Diz turned to sports announcing, enriched the language with such phrases as "slud...
...throw a football he set a record. In 1945 he had a fabulous completion percentage of .703. Two years later Baugh threw 354 passes, completed 210 of them for 2,938 yards, setting three alltime N.F.L. records in one season. As a quick-kicker, he had no peer; as a defensive player, in the days before the two-platoon system, Baugh once led the N.F.L. in interceptions. Almost since the day he entered the league, the big No. 33 on Baugh's back has been the biggest gate attraction in professional football...