Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Mother to furnish such confirmation, but neither new King George nor anyone else denied that his elder brother had given history the correct version of who was responsible for expediting his father's funeral, and shame was upon the Garter King of Arms. That night Sir Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable-until suddenly Sir Gerald wilted, sent word that...
...freshly printed placards and pamphlets proclaiming martial law were on hand, ready in case of trouble to be posted up or dropped from British bombing planes. The battle cruiser Repulse sped from Malta to Palestine this week, her decks carrying a full flight of airplanes. Mild High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who has governed Palestine for several years with a policy of "muddling through," was reported in Jerusalem dispatches as slated to receive a peerage and be replaced in Palestine by drastic Sir John Anderson, the efficiently ruthless sahib who, as Governor of Bengal, suppressed a series of assassinations...
King Solomon's Mines (Gaumont-British) is good-old-fashioned adventure adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 50-year-old melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good...
...poor to bid was the third Bourbon sister, 61-year-old Marie Alice Ildephonse Marguerite. Princess Del Prete, whom Don Jaime cut off with 12,000 francs a year. For ?15,000 the necklace passed into the hands of jewel-fancying Sir Kamesh-war Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga, whose bodyguard of eight tall, turbaned, immaculate Indians has been one of London's sights since the Coronation...
...replaced by Rolf Gerard at the Cincinnati Zoo where he was scheduled to appear. In honor of Patron Eckstein, Miss Bori gave her services free. Old Gennaro Papi, a longtime Ravinia favorite, postponed his European trip so he could conduct the Chicago Orchestra. After the opening night, Sir Ernest MacMillan of the Toronto Symphony took up his baton. Other conductors scheduled: Swiss Ernest Ansermet, Hans Kindler of Washington's National Symphony, Hans Lange, St. Louis' Vladimir Golschmann, Cincinnati's Fritz Reiner. On July 17 at Ravinia, Mischa Mischakoff, recently made concertmaster of the NBC Orchestra (TIME...