Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Sir Robert Balfour, 85, shipbuilder (Balfour, Williamson & Co); in London. Because his heir died in 1923 and his younger son was killed in the War, the baronetcy is now extinct...
...Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets, pageants, shows. The new Lord Mayor, round and smiling Sir William Waterlow (not Waterloo), joint head of the potent printing firm of Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., spent at least $25,000 of his "pay" last week...
Fifteen brass bands preceded Sir William down the Strand. Between the bands lurched and rumbled dozens of gorgeous, ingenious, expensive floats. One series showed the progress of printing from the Gutenberg Bible to the daily tabloid, with Father Time seen at last frantically pecking the keys of a linotype machine...
...calves gleaming in pink silk stockings, a plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs (hygienic relic of the Great Plague...
...glorious but not a comfortable ride. Two centuries have not improved the wheels and axles of the Lord Mayor's Coach. Jouncing, bobbing, bowing Sir William Waterlow was perspiring from the effort of keeping his equilibrium before he reached the Inns of Court...