Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson, sir, is the student newspaper of Harvard, run entirely by undergraduates in the College and entirely uncensored by the University...
Between the mainland of North Carolina and a string of shifting sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White...
...been a catch in Britain's armament plans. Though the air force and navy are fully manned the army last week was 25,000 men shorthanded. Chief reason for this is on the lips of every Tommy-"We don't get enough bleeding pay." As Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson M. P. recently pointed out "army pay in every rank is lower than in the navy or in the air force." The general theory is that a sailor deserves more because he is forced to leave his sweethearts for long periods, an air force man because...
...Yarnell on the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet of some 40 outmoded destroyers, auxiliaries and spoon-shallow river gunboats; 2) the fourth U. S. Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists; 7) the Shanghai Volunteer...
...humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...