Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortunes of "Emperor" Cook are at considerably lower ebb; and as Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation he very thankfully waits upon the Lord Mayor's Fund, administered to keep Out-of-work miners from starving. Last week the Lord Mayor of London, well-fed Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, gave a luncheon at Mansion House and at the speakers' table sat both Edward of Wales and "Emperor" Cook...
...sir," cried "Emperor" Cook huskily, turning directly to H. R. H., "You, sir, have done a marvelous thing. Never was I so impressed as by your speech on Christmas night. I was with two Communist friends and when your name was announced to speak on behalf of the miners' fund, they scoffed, but they listened to what you had to say and when you had finished, with tears in their eyes they put their hands in their pockets and gave what money they had to the fund...
...chill, and both Commissioners Chadbourne & Swope had excursioned to Paris, there to witness a contemporary demonstration of the ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had also won a complete, a memorable, a monumental victory. For last week Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s Managing Director, announced that his company's "British Only" stock issue had been unconditionally withdrawn. Thus the principle of financial internationalism was thoroughly vindicated; thus the U. S. financier can send his dollars across the ocean, confident that they will meet with...
...absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress by contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between...
...Nathans '30, Duke of Glastonbury; Maurice Kurnitsky '30, Lord Brooke of Brookehill; David White '29, Lord Cudworth; L. M. Shapiro '29. Charles Viscount Deeford; L. H. Weinstein 21, the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, M. P.; N. J. Winer '31, Mr. Hugh Meyers; P. W. Winer 31, Sir Michael Probert, Bart.; Arnold Kowarsky '31, Mr. Lumley Foljambe; William Taub '32, Bascot, Disraeli's Butler; A. I. M. Abramson '29, Flooks, a rural postman...