Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pushing back his spectacles in amazement, old Chairman Doughton asked: "Would you have the same rate on bread and wheat as cigarets and whiskey?" Mr. Cromwell: "Yes, sir." Thoroughly nettled, long-faced Congressman Fred Vinson quickly calculated that on the base suggested by Mr. Cromwell the sales tax would have to be 18%. This, Mr. Cromwell admitted, was "a little high." Thus, last week, like scores of other U. S. citizens, Husband Cromwell exercised his right to be heard on a new tax bill in the making...
...such outbursts had taken place inside No. 10. The meeting got off on the right foot when de Valera found on the British side of the long Cabinet table his trusted friend, "straight shooting'' Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late James Ramsay MacDonald, and Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Regarded by Englishmen as a cold-as-a-fish lawyer, Sir John is known to Irishmen as the husband of an ardent Irishwoman and the man who defended Ireland in the terroristic days of the Black & Tan. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was pleased to find...
...total blindness, he was still one of the least appreciated of eminent modern composers. Though his works had been performed off & on in Germany, the French, among whom he spent his most productive years, had ignored him. In 1899 Delius himself arranged a concert in London; in 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham had organized a six-day Delius Festival, which the composer attended in a wheel chair. But his opera, Koanga, had waited more than 35 years for its British premiere. His masterpieces, the Mass of Life and the opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet, had received only a half-dozen...
Here is a new style in memoirs which promises to be a valuable model for those who would seek a different medium of literary autobiography. Sir John Squire, for many years the editor of The London Mercury, and Literary editor of The New Statesman, as well as a writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and drama of no little note, has written a sparkling narrative of his life, the great personalities it has been his privilege to know, and in short, an excellent commentary on present day England...
After turning the last page of "The Honeysuckle and the Bee," the reader does not find himself equipped with a mass of data ready to be incorporated in a lecture on Sir John Squire. He finds, rather, an impression of the man, and with this an intimacy with contemporary English men of letters, and indeed men in every walk of his life, for the book does not alone with the writers. Perhaps the work is not of great lasting value, because it may not be great, but certainly it is of intense interest, and significant for its change from...