Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man, however, had one failing--he could not remember names. After locating the librarian he walked quickly up and asked, "Hey, sir, have you got a book called 'Homer and Anastos...
British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested...
...seek. Mr. Gilbert's paradoxical wit, astonishing to the ordinary Englishman, is nothing to me. Nature has cursed me with a facility for the same trick; and I could paradox Mr. Gilbert's head off were I not convinced that such trifling is morally unjustifiable. As to Sir Arthur's scores, they form an easy introduction to dramatic music and picturesque or topical orchestration for perfect novices; but as I had learned it all from Meyerbeer . . . and was pretty well tired of Offenbach before Trial By Jury was born, there was no musical novelty in the affair...
...Montreal last week Sir Edward Beatty, chancellor (chairman of the board of governors) of McGill University, announced the appointment of the first U. S. citizen ever to head that Canadian institution. The new principal, succeeding British Arthur Eustace Morgan, who resigned last spring after a little more than a year in the post, was Lewis Williams Douglas, 43, President Roosevelt's first Director of the Budget. Since his resignation in 1934 in protest against New Deal spending, Mr. Douglas had devoted himself to warnings against his old chief and to his duties as vice president and director of American...
Died. Lord William Robert Wellesley Peel, 70, famed British Conservative, twice (1922-24, 1928-29) Secretary of State for India; in Petersfield. England. Earl Peel was a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, who founded the London Police force (named after him ''bobbies"). In the House of Commons Earl Peel was called "Never-merry" Peel because "his disposition ... is not precisely sweet." This year, he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on Palestine that sourly recommended partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...