Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit are many illustrations for the several parts of the "Life of Sir John Falstaff." With these are some of Cruikshank's well-known drawings, of which the ones of "Bluebeard," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" are notable...
...Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just...
...Sir Gilbert Parker, English novelist (The Right of Way, The Weavers, The World for Sale), broke his arm, suffered bruises when an automobile, driven by his wife, who was not injured, overturned near Carmel Highlands, Calif...
From the musty dryness of a Canopic jar which once stood in a Pharaoh's tomb a London surgeon took the dead Pharaoh's dried and leather heart. He dissected it and marveled. His amazement he told to Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, who last week retold: The heart showed a fatty degeneration and a hardening, and it was, wonderfully, the heart of that very Pharaoh Menephthah of whom the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. . . . (Exodus...
...Installation of Sir William Waterlow, new Lord Mayor of London...