Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English are said to dearly love a lord, and the second Lord Redesdale is there to prove that they dote on a dotty peer-especially if he has six daughters, mostly zany, mostly blonde. An impressive photograph of the six Honorable Misses Freeman-Mitford, in their ironclad British tweeds, appears in this autobiography by one of their number. An industrious, middle-aged newspaper reader with total recall would be able to attempt a quiz about every blessed one of them, roughly thus...
...foundations of Christianity. He was also pretty savage about a proposal to seat peeresses. Even the Conservative press laughed at his views, as did his six daughters. Nancy thought she knew his real reason : there was only one W.C. in the House of Lords. As a parsimonious peer bringing up six daughters in a di minishing series of houses where the plumbing had not been much improved since the Black Death, his lordship knew how inconvenient females...
...blind under water, the basic equipment is a good face mask that will transform the murk into a wonderland. With the addition of a simple snorkel tube poking above the surface, the swimmer can cruise indefinitely on the surface with his face buried under water. So equipped, swimmers can peer for happy hours into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico or forest-bound lakes in Wisconsin, study the toadfish that fusses like an old lady off Long Island. Ducking beneath the surface, the strong-lunged pry abalone from the California shallows, or spear unwary fish that hover near...
...author has picked a difficult sort of hero, a man whose birth, so to speak, has left him unnaturally sensitive but permanently exhausted. Millhouser has been made thoroughly credible; his character is consistent as far as the reader is able to peer into it. But the view, not deep enough, is too often dull...
...move that brought Australia closer to Britain than ever, Queen Elizabeth II granted a life barony to Down Under Minister for External Affairs Richard Gardiner Casey, 69. Baron Casey is the first life peer ever to be so elevated from outside the British Isles. If he ever comes to the Isles, Casey will be entitled to take a seat in the House of Lords. In England, meanwhile, Elizabeth, expecting her third child imminently, was the subject of a spate of delicious prattle. It seems that lightweight Novelist Barbara (Love Is the Enemy) Cartland had visited the exclusive Mayfair beauty salon...