Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was nothing furtive or dubious about this, as Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain quietly aired the facts in the House of Commons and such British union leaders as Arthur James ("Emperor"') Cook cried: "Thank God for Moscow...
Concluded Lord Melchett: "In the hands of Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary of the Committee for Imperial Defense] there is the famous War Book, containing detailed plans about practically everything for the event of war. Well, we ought to have a Peace Book, mobilization plans for times of peace!" ¶ "Officials here are trying assiduously to prevent the British Lion from roaring or showing its teeth as Mussolini twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly...
Barrie wrote Quality Street in 1900. Some of the tired gaiety still clinging to its voluminous and lacy folds might have been revitalized if Producer Pandro Berman and his aids had overcome their reverence for Sir James Barrie...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
...London. He subsisted as an insurance man until he persuaded a rich young friend, Barry Jackson, to back his play Abraham Lincoln. At his death Playwright Drinkwater had completed The King's People, a film to be released at the Coronation starring George Bernard Shaw, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lady Astor, himself...