House of Peers
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Prominent members of the Diet and the House of Peers said privately that the government must fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers.
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Now, in Washington, Japan's first music maestro, whose elder brother, Prince Funimaro Konoye, heads the Japanese House of Peers, made cultural face for his country such as no Japanese had ever made before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides their month's attendance at the Court, the Lords-in-Waiting are sometimes employed to represent public departments in the House of Peers, and Lord Acton represented the Irish Office for the Chief Secretary, Mr. Morley.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
