Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review of 13,000 Philippine infantry troops parading to celebrate the Commonwealth's second anniversary, President Quezon said grandly to U. S. High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt: "This army that has paraded before us, sir, is not only the Philippine Army, it is your Army because under the Independence Act the President of the United States, whom you represent, has power to call it out in defense of the American flag and also because the Filipino people would gladly do so in recognition of what you have done...
...Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince Ludwig, 6, Prince Alexander, 4, and the 66-year-old Dowager Duchess were all flying to London for the wedding of Prince Ludwig, social attaché in the German Embassy at London, to Miss Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, onetime Cabinet Minister and onetime British Ambassador...
...sir, give me back the dear old cave And my unflattering four-footed friends. I abdicate, and pass the throne to Poly-dore...
About the same time in Aberdeen, Physicist George Paget Thomson, able son of Sir Joseph John, obtained the same result by a different method. He used much more high-powered electrons, around 50,000 volts. These were able to penetrate the crystalline structure of a film of metal one-millionth of an inch thick. After emerging they were still strong enough to impress a photographic plate, and Thomson obtained the first pictures of diffraction rings created by electrons...
...atheism, wrote "See what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!" but unfortunately did not give details. Strait-laced Victorians tended to emphasize Marlowe's dissolute habits in explaining his early death. Because Marlowe's patron was a Walsingham, and Sir Francis Walsingham was chief of Elizabeth's highly-developed secret service, there was a theory that Marlowe had been a confidential government agent, was killed because he knew too much. If this theory could be proved it would drastically revise contemporary versions of Elizabethan literary life, suggesting that poets were more...