Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy, published in St. Petersburg, 1831, and originally part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...Home Secretary Sir John Simon, long England's highest-priced lawyer, was forced by the questions of M.P.'s last week to advise the House of Commons whether or not the Throne would be inherited jointly by both Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Reason for this question: when there is no male heir to a British peerage it descends equally upon female heirs who are sisters, and the House was much disquieted last week by the thought that England might some day have two Queens at once, after the manner of the two simultaneous Kings of Barataria...
...makes a clean breast in the House of Commons of shortcomings of his Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante), but last week this penitent part-a role which homely Squire Baldwin has made singularly popular in the United Kingdom-was taken by the Minister for the Coordination of Defense, Sir Thomas Hobart Inskip...
Mary F. Stanard sued his executor, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, for $66,666. Near Pontoise, France, ghouls tunneled into the tomb of munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharos, pried open the mahogany casket of his wife, supposedly in search of jewels falsely reported to have been buried with her corpse...
Richard reached 21 and came into the Dorchester estate only this year. Died, Brigadier Henry Archdale Tomkinson, 55, manager of King George V's and VI's racing and breeding studs; in London. He annually wagered a half-crown (62?) with Sailing Master Major Sir Philip Hunloke that the King's horses would win more races than the King's racing cutter Britannia. Died, Most Reverend Michael James Gallagher, 70, Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit since 1918, longtime ecclesiastical friend and protector of political Priest Charles Edward Coughlin; of a throat ailment; in Detroit...