Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Rearmament gives so much employment at high wages to the working man, no Labor M.P. seriously opposed Rearmament in debate last week, and in The City shares in British armament and allied firms rose on the Exchange some 20%. Nobody paid much attention to Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps's remark: "We are witnessing the most magnificent subscription to a world suicide pact ever publicized by any country in the world...
...SALESMAN to His Majesty (after Queen Elizabeth has purchased three dozen pairs of silk stockings and walked on a short distance) : "May I show you these stockings, sir? Now you'll know them when the bill comes in. Thank you, sir...
...since William of Wykeham or Henry VIII. Lord Nuffield, who used to run a cycle shop for undergraduates on the High and whose Morris motorcar works in nearby Cowley now make outlying Oxford town resemble a small Detroit, startled Oxford recently by handing over $10,000,000 to realize Sir Farquhar Buzzard's dream of a university medical centre (TIME, Jan. 4). It was also Lord Nuffield who started off the Oxford Appeal in Britain with $500,000. The Cecil Rhodes Trustees promptly pledged another...
...sir," said the tutee, "The King, Claudius, Polonius, and the Queen make four...
...Sir...