Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King as he then still was, entered in the kilt, refused the old-fashioneds prepared by Mrs. Simpson and addressed her Aunt Bessie as "Aunt Bessie," Mrs. Simpson addressed the King as "Sir," according to Cousin Newbold who presently gave King Edward his "professional opinion" that 70% of all U. S. newspaper stories about Mrs. Simpson had been favorable...
...When Sir Murchison had departed, within a few minutes President Roosevelt followed him, went ashore in the local steamer Tobago, drove out to Government House. There after a few swizzles of excellent Trinidad rum, they shook their heads in private over Mrs. Simpson's triumph, ate a highly seasoned luncheon, motored for 25 miles through the countryside before the Indianapolis was ready to sail...
...Simpson unquestionably knows many of the British Empire's most vital State secrets. The abdication of King Edward could not have satisfied that great lawyer, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, had not His Majesty's Government been today in possession of the most binding engagements signed by Mrs. Simpson not to divulge these secrets. It was also necessary, for the highest reasons of State and also for other reasons, to establish in an official manner whether or not last week Mrs. Simpson was with child, as suggested by the Paris newspaper L'Oeuvre...
...Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in 1558. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Sir Francis Drake taught to smoke a pipe in 1586, made smoking fashionable in Elizabethan England. Now the tobacco habit is so deeply fixed among mankind that U. S. consumers alone last year bought 134,607,741,257 cigarets, 4,763,883.947 cigars, 95,875 tons of pipe tobacco, 18,030 tons of snuff. That smoking is not injurious to the vast majority of smokers is attested by the microscopic size of the anti-tobacco movement...
Aviatrix Sophie Mary Peirce-Evans Williams, onetime holder of the women's altitude record, divorced from Sir James Heath in 1930, was found drunk in a subway station by London police. Unable to furnish a $50 guaranty of six months' good behavior, she was sentenced to 28 days in jail...