Word: sir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sir Walter Raleigh was in his prison composing the second volume of his History of the World. Leaning on the sill of his window he meditated on the duties of the historian to mankind, when suddenly his attention was attracted by a disturbance before his cell. He saw one man strike another, whom he supposed by his dress to be an officer; the latter at once drew his sword and ran the former through the body. The wounded man felled his adversary with a stick, and then sank upon the pavement. At this juncture the guard came up and carried...
...diplomatic corps performs socially in a tight little world of its own. The hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses...
...Graves Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven British cemeteries. Last week the I. W. G. C., tireless, diligent and unsung, published its ninth annual report, a monument to the labors of its Permanent Vice-chairman, Major General Sir Fabian Ware...
...lost soldiers in 1919, the Commission has done so well that today the whereabouts of all but 326,256 are known. Corpses "identified and buried" total 582,783, while only 173,213 have had to be interred as "unknown soldiers." Especially tasteful has been the advice of Artistic Adviser Sir Frederic Kenyon, in collaboration with seven Principal Architects, five of whom are knights...
Rich native merchants and Rajah connoisseurs will pay almost as much for a fair-skinned girl from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities...