Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sir Herbert Ames, firs Treasurer of the League of Nations, deplored the power that has been built up by Hitler in Germany, after his talk about last fall's Nazi rally given in the Union last night...
Tracing the situation in Germany back to the time when the United States Senate failed to back up President Wilson in his League of Nations, Sir Herbert blamed it on the United States. He felt that if the United States and entered the League that France would not have been afraid of Germany and would have allowed changes in the Treaty of Versailles that would have made it more tolerable...
...accusation when a Rexist Deputy swaggered up to Belgium's present namby-pamby Premier Paul Emile Janson, and offered him a sealed envelope supposedly containing evidence for further charges against Wauters. At this new example of fascism turned smearism, the mild Premier for once showed spunk. "Did you, sir, steal these?" he shrilled. "And where?" Then he treated the Chamber to a denunciation of Rexist tactics, dramatically returned the unopened envelope to its purveyor...
...been thinking about googols for some years. It is too large a number ever to be used for physical enumeration, since Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington estimates the number of electrons in the entire universe to be 1 followed by 79 zeros. The googolplex is so large a number that it could not be written on a piece of paper stretching across the visible universe (some 1,000,000,000 light-years...
Last of Mrs. Cheyney, varnished English comedies in straight descent from Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero wherein persons of title misbehaved in epigrams...