Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief at The Nore), his escort consisting of four of Britain's new secret torpedo motor boats. Such a vast wash did they create that dozens of spectators near Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment were swept from their feet, nearly drowned...
Object of the excursion was to open the rearranged, remodeled National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, world's greatest collection of marine paintings, ship models, instruments and relics, greatly enlarged by munificent gifts from Sir James Caird, shipowner and meat importer, and from Queen Mary. King George last week was able to inspect the coat in which Nelson died; the first chronometer; Sir Francis Drake's astrolabe; two logbooks belonging to Captain James Cook...
...until three days before the Coronation will Canada's most popular delegation, a troop of 34 scarlet-coated "Mounties," reach London, a fact that kept War Office underlings in a state of jitters for weeks. To Major General Sir James H. MacBrien, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they cabled anxiously that the men come sooner to get their horses accustomed to cheering crowds. General MacBrien cabled back that the horses were being made crowdwise at Rockliffe Barracks near Ottawa...
...once the property of sour-faced Philosopher Voltaire, who gave it to his great admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia. Claiming it as his personal property, Wilhelm II was able to ship it out of Germany to his exile at Doom, later was forced to sell it to Sir Joseph Duveen who passed it on for a handsome consideration to Mr. Bache...
...days later she limped miraculously into Queensland, where Sir John, awake for once to the human factor of shipping, shook hands mightily with the captain...