Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister for the Coordination of Defense-Sir Thomas Inskip...
...keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
...sir! Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
...late Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton's English business was incorporated as a public company in 1898, but his businesses in the U. S. and Canada he kept as private enterprises until his death in 1931. Sir Thomas never went into the retail business in the U. S. as he did in England. His genial, perennial challenges for the America's Cup (in 1899, 1901, 1903. 1914, 1920, 1930), most remarkable advertising feats of a born salesman's career helped to make Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. the biggest tea-packing company in the U. S. Only Great Atlantic...
...Profits had been doubled since 1934. For the first four months of 1937 Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. shows a net profit of $321,598, which the company deprecates as the usual seasonal business is always followed by a decline in the last half of the year. One thing Sir George Schuster did on his tie-strengthening visit was to approve a $1,000,000 Lipton advertising campaign, biggest since 1929, planned by husky, friendly William Wigmore Shannon, general manager of the U. S. company...