Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Departing from the usual exhibits of sculpture, painting, or drawing, the Fogg Museum is displaying nearly two hundred ancient engraved gems, chosen from the collection of the great archeologist, Sir Arthur Evans. These gems are far more than mere engraved seals, they are glimpses into the ancient world, from the bull-ring of Knossos of perhaps 1500 B.C. to the veil of St. Veronica in the fourth century...
...Churchill, who thus might have been expected to snub Herr Henlein last week, actually invited this Hitler stooge to his London flat for a three-hour conference at which was present the Liberal Opposition Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair. This was in the early afternoon, and with much frantic telephoning a late tea party for Herr Henlein was arranged by Laborite Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher...
Bedded with gout at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet as follows: Sir Kingsley Wood, formerly Health Minister, becomes Air Secretary; Lord Harlech, who had just entered the peerage because of his father's death, and who formerly as William Ormsby-Gore was Colonial. Secretary, is succeeded in that post by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay; Lord Stanley becomes Dominions Secretary, the office vacated by Mr. MacDonald; and Major Walter Elliot is made Health Minister, relinquishing the Secretaryship for Scotland to Lieut. Colonel David John Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...House of Commons saw this as a series of merited promotions for Sir Kingsley, MacDonald, Stanley and Elliot who have long been marked as comparatively youthful "comers." In the dropping out of Peers Swinton and Harlech was seen an effort to give the Chamberlain Cabinet a more "democratic" guise before a General Election becomes necessary. This week London papers began saying openly that for this same reason Viscount Halifax may soon be succeeded as Foreign Secretary by a "commoner," possibly even by Vote Getter Anthony Eden...
Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish vaudeville comedian, slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Strathaven home, banged his face, bumped his thigh...