Word: peerless
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...since a lot of people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where Strachey conveyed the quality and texture of a period, Maurois lacquered his work with the weary irony of the worldly boulevardier...
...trio, Malcolm Whitt, gave himself up when the liquor ran out. The other two hid out. A sheriff's posse was organized to track them down-and the peerless Hogjaw and his hounds were requisitioned from the prison farm. Hogjaw turned up, burly and cocky, in a bright red shirt and striped pants. He belted on a pistol and holster, and at rainy daybreak put three dogs, High Rollin' Red, Nigger and Alabama, on the trail...
...western side of the Sinai Peninsula last week, Egypt's King Farouk, 29, who recently divorced Farida ("Peerless"), his queen of eleven years, was behaving remarkably like David. Farouk was getting ready to marry again. There are several non-synoptic versions of how this came to pass, and the most reliable account is this...