Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...with the best of modern and classical authors in preparation for the Reading Period. However, his eager Public need not be alarmed; for, every other evening if the weather is good, he will furtively make his way through the dark Spring twilight, sidle along empty streets and longingly peer into dormitories crammed with busy little brains. His resultant comment upon life and letters may possibly splash into this column...
Mencken thinks polytheism still rears its many heads. "The God of the Episcopalians is an elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...
Even the oldest peer and the "Father of the House" were consulted. Oldest is William Henry John North, 93, 11th Baron North, High Steward of Banbury, an asthmatic but indomitable old soldier, who still follows his pack of basset-hounds as best he can in his limousine, and must take little comfort that he is a great-grandson of the historic Lord North (Prime Minister 1770-82) whose imperious attitude toward the American Colonies was a major cause of their revolt. The Baronage of North was in abeyance from 1802 to 1841, and the present nth Baron North...
...friendly terms with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, now "Father of the House of Commons" (i. e., not the oldest member, but the one longest a member?40 years in the case of Mr. Lloyd George, and for the Earl of Coventry 87 years). The youngest peer is the Earl of Gains borough, 6, and the youngest old enough to take his seat is the Premier Duke and Earl of England, the Duke of Norfolk...
...characterization of the French collegian, appearing elsewhere on these pages, strikes a note seriously critical of American universities. Inspiring is this picture of serious youth bent whole-heartedly over its books; decadent and inefficient in contrast appears America's counterpart. "The university-trained Frenchman is without peer in the world of education", ecstatically sings the Boston Post...