Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington to persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing. By this time, he had informed the U. S. that the correct way to address the couple-whom he punctiliously avoided calling by name, referred to them as "my friends"-was "Sir...
...sail, the Windsors lunched at the British Embassy, went back to the Hotel Meurice to finish packing their 20 trunks and 50 suitcases. Late that afternoon, the Windsor Housing Tour of the U. S. reached its final anticlimax. This was a statement issued by the Duke's equerry, Sir Dudley Forwood...
Lady Maria has already had a bit of a Paris fling with one Anthony Horton (Melvyn Douglas). With some help from coincidence, Sir Frederick meets Anthony, finds they are Wartime buddies, and invites him over to the manse. Lady Maria is still disposed toward fidelity when Sir Frederick decides to go to Geneva alone instead of second-honeymooning with her to Vienna. Slighted, she grants Anthony's plea for a meeting at their Paris rendezvous. Here Sir Frederick, having put two and two together, arrives in time to win her back by knowingly accepting her suggestion that someone else...
...called Thunderbolt and is described by courtesy as an automobile. Last week he took this gadget out on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, warmed up its 24-cylinder, 4,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce twin engines, and made a try at the 301 m.p.h. land speed record established by Sir Malcolm Campbell two years...
Since his trials had only begun, it seemed likely that Sir Malcolm's speed record would soon fall, and if it does the details of Captain Eyston's contraption would be released to satisfy the curiosity of the public and provide advertising copy for the manufacturers who contributed to its still secret construction...