Word: rt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jocund luncheon afterward, the Rt. Rev. Charles Lisle Carr, Bishop of Coventry cried: "To Shakespeare's immortal memory!" and upended his glass. Cried Dramatist St. John Greer Ervine: "To the drama!" Sparkling-eyed Actress Violet Vanbrugh responded to this toast. Later Mr. Ervine, who spent the winter of 1928-29 in Manhattan taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare...
...Great Britain the movement is gaining much headway, despite the boycotting influence of the powerful financial interests. It gains impetus through the timely advocacy in the British House of Commons by the Rt. Hon. John Wheatley of proposals for arriving "Through Consumption to Prosperity...
...budget afternoon last week the great leaders of British banking, shipping and industry left their offices and jostled each other in the distinguished visitors' gallery of the House, or the Peers' gallery if their rank entitled them to that eminence. Noticed in the distinguished jam was Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and in the packed Peers' gallery Baron Kylsant, chairman of the Royal Mail Line, White Star Line and associated companies, largest shipping combine on earth...
Shocking Figures. Reading his speech with frequent glances at the opposition bench on which sat his rival and predecessor as Chancellor, Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Mr. Snowden rasped...
Reelected. Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, to be Governor of the Bank of England for the eleventh consecutive year...