Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debate preceding the vote narrowed down to a personal exchange between portly, twinkly-eyed independent Tory Winston Churchill and the solemn-faced Prime Minister. Expressing regret that New Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood had been taken from his "salubrious employment as Minister of Health and forced to don the panoply of Mars," Mr. Churchill cracked that Mr. Chamberlain was trying to solve the air problems by "putting a round peg in a square hole." The House roared with laughter. Sir Kingsley, called "Cherub" by his friends, is as round-bellied as Mr. Churchill himself...
...Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India and Burma announced that the Government has now acquired a huge secret store of raw materials as a war preparedness measure, in addition to the stocks of wheat, sugar and whale oil disclosed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon three weeks ago. "We do a great many things unknown to the public," confided the Marquess to his peers...
Olivia De Havilland couldn't be more ravishing and, cast to type, her only convincing scenes are d'Amour. The villainous villain, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, is the able Basil Rathbone. The supporting cast, including the familiar Little John and Friar Tuck, are true to their storybook types, and everybody has a wonderful time...
...little Sultanate of Zanzibar off the east coast of Africa there are 180,000 Negroes, 33,000 Arabs, 15,000 Indians, 278 Europeans. The Sultan of Zanzibar, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, gets advice from an English Resident on complicated commercial matters. These, of late, have mainly concerned cloves, of which Zanzibar provides 80% of the world supply; India, in turn, consumes 90% of Zanzibar's output. There are three or four cloves in every betel leaf, and the average Indian citizen chews betel leaves more furiously than the average American chews gum-20 leaves...
...Sultan of Zanzibar, who likes nothing better than sailing his yacht in the Indian Ocean and going to London now & then, came to his senses some time ago. But the English association was stubborn. Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub knew well that in a few more months his Sultanate would go through the East African equivalent of 776 and he might do little or no yachting. Finally, last week, news came from Zanzibar that an agreement had been signed, Indian pickets could relax. From now on the English association's monopoly will govern only half the trade in Zanzibar...