Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said candid Dr. McDowell: "Madam, I can do you no good. Your situation is deplorable. John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood, four of the first and most eminent surgeons in England and Scotland, have uniformly declared in their lectures that such is the danger of peritoneal inflammation, that opening the abdomen to extract a tumor is inevitable death. Notwithstanding this, if you think yourself prepared to die, I will take the lump from you, if you can come to Danville...
...Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to inaugurate Denmark's most important post-War project, the longest bridge in continental Europe, which will revolutionize the country's transport system. Traveling more comfortably, Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen, the rest of Copenhagen's diplomatic corps and some 700 other officials came down for the ceremony on two special trains...
...Madam Secretary Perkins is Mrs. Paul Wilson. She has a daughter. Susanna...
...these three alone were not the cornerstone of the works relief business: Secretary Wallace and Madam Secretary Perkins, Frank Walker and Harry Hopkins, Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples (director of procurement) all had places in Mr. Ickes' Allotment Board. Thus the circles interlocked. Titles and assignments obviously did not show which of the New Dealers would turn the works relief wheels...
...Negro, pinions him fast. Then from his pocket the gentleman whips a gleaming pen knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman, who has now recovered, the immaculate avenger doffs his topper, bows from the waist saying, "Your purse, Madam," steps quickly back into his limousine, purrs away into the night. . . . Should a Hollywood producer present such a scene on the U. S. screen, audiences would doubtless groan or guffaw. Should any citizen of Atlanta behold such a scene on Ivy Street, near Cain, he would not believe his eyes...