Word: misters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary to Minister to Belgium Brand Whitlock. Though he holds M.A. and LL.D. (Hon.) degrees from St. Stephen's and a Ph.D. from Leipzig, Dr. Nock dislikes being called "Doctor." Believing U. S. institutions too generous with doctorates, he calls his contemporaries (from the lecture platform) Mister Butler and Mister Flexner. He has, however, a Ph.D. son, English teacher at the University of Leipzig, who permits himself to be called Dr. Samuel Nock. Son Francis teaches German at New York University...
...shall eat your spinach!" said Mister McGow...
...dome of Mister Chesterton...
...Mister, or rather Monsieur. Roy saw to it that Mr. Bennett (no Monsieur he) was banqueted first by the French National Association for Economic Expansion, then officially by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin, famed for his philippics against the U. S. tariff. With his usual candor Mr. Bennett said that what he was after was French orders for Canada's surplus wheat, and rumors were not long in growing that what M. Flandin was after was Canadian orders for French surplus wine. In recent years the French have shown a tendency to buy more wheat from Canada, less...
...fields of 1930-31. With the approval of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and Editor George Horace Lorimer, Mr. Healy accepted the services of President Arthur H. Kudner of Erwin, Wasey & Co., the man and agency who won a 1930 Bok Award for their post-crash slogan: "All right, Mister, now that the headache's over, let's go to work" (TIME, March 10). Mr. Kudner had prepared for Mr. Healy a million-dollar program of vigorous "cheer-up" messages signed by the Satevepost, to appear in 38 "key city" newspapers and eight magazines over a period...