Word: peering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment was bound to stir up opposition. The Labor Party doesn't want another peer in the government (which means he sits in the House of Lords and cannot be subjected to the sharp questioning of the House of Commons). And many Britons, including War Office men, dislike having a soldier in a job traditionally held by a civilian. It was opposition which would question neither Alexander's character nor his ability...
Massey, who succeeds Field Marshal Alexander (see FOREIGN NEWS), is clearly as suitable for the job as any British peer. Educated at the University of Toronto (of which he later became chancellor) and Oxford, he has had a notable career as educator, became the first Canadian Minister to the U.S. (1927-30), and served as High Commissioner to Great Britain...
Died. Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, 64, Viceroy of India for a record 6½ years (1936-43); of coronary thrombosis while shooting game on his estate near South Queensferry, Scotland. An old-fashioned peer who believed that the aristocracy has responsibilities as well as privileges, Lord Linlithgow distinguished himself as a soldier (commander of a Royal Scots battalion in World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional...
...keep the boy's part easy, the others more florid. Menotti chose middle ground, and although he has some difficult singing (and acting) to do, curly-haired and clear-voiced little Chet Allen of Princeton's Columbus Boychoir carries it off beautifully. Menotti has no peer when it comes to setting the English language to music and, as always, makes every word understandable...
Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...