Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driven passenger car seats six, hauls a big baggage van. From the Bermuda Railway was borrowed Chief Engineer Kitchen to supervise construction; into the island's collections went $2,000 in duty on materials. On hand for the inauguration was Bermuda's florid British Governor, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald J. T. Hildyard-who, like all Bermuda Governors, is a good friend to the island's richest residents. So pleased was Railroader Astor with his labor saving railway that he panned to extend it over the rest of the estate...
...round-faced Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, who married the Duke and Mrs. Simpson: "I am convinced in my heart that if ever there was a woman who could have sat on the throne of England. . . ." The ecstatic listeners here drowned his speech with cries of "Hear, hear!" "Thank you, Sir...
...crystallization since 1933, the MARS exhibition was actually one of the most effective presentations of modern architecture and planning ever made. As Frank Lloyd Wright has gone back to Thoreau for common sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park...
Last week the Smithsonian announced that it had received helpful testimony from Sir Flinders Petrie, the British archeologist who has done more than any other man alive to recreate the ancient civilization of Egypt. Sir Flinders, 84, describes himself as "quite sound and normal." At 20, he wore a size 6½ hat. At 30, size 7 to 7½. At 40, size 7¼. At 50, size 7½. After he was 60 no standard size would...
...COMING, SIR!"-Dave Marlowe-Lippincott...