Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even those indolent M.P.s who rarely put in an appearance rolled up in full force, jam-packed the House so thickly that Laborite M.P. Richard Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs, including the famed economist Sir Josiah Stamp and Bank of England's eccentric Governor Montagu Norman. So staggering was the Budget speech which all were keyed up to hear that Montagu Norman was reported next day to have "looked bewildered as if he could not follow or believe what he heard...
...moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictographs. Leading from the basement to the orange grove was a 400-yd. tunnel...
Turning savagely on Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty he snapped: "One must remember that the First Lord of the Admiralty is the man who trailed the honor of this country in the dust over Ethiopia. He has a special habit of being friendly with pirates...
...Sir John Simon attempted to reply for the Government, but scarcely a word could be heard thanks to John J. ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite from Silvertown, who kept hopping up & down chanting: "We've got a Navy! We've got a Navy! Order yourselves! Which side...
Events in Brussels last week fateful to the future of European Democracy could handily be visualized in London terms. It was just as if No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley should put himself up as a candidate at a by-election and be taken so seriously that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin should step down to fight him man to man as the opposing candidate. Further, it was as if King George VI should spunkily issue denials of rumors that he was pro-Fascist; and as if the Archbishop of Canterbury should come crashing through at the last moment with...