Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet was reported contemplating, as the most practicable means of thwarting the match, proceedings by the Attorney General to see whether Mrs. Simpson can be legally blocked from obtaining her final decree of divorce April 27, thus forcing her in England to remain the wife of Mr. Simpson. Sir Claud Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor was reported to have advised the Cabinet that legally the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson without the Government's consent. The New York Times credited the highly exasperated King-Emperor with having told his Prime Minister something to this effect...
...weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
...department has nothing to do with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
...impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully over the stupidity of the English. Such small victories tightened the restrictions around him. His last struggle was his five-year fight with short, redheaded, pompous, shifty-eyed Sir Hudson Lowe, which ended with Napoleon's death and left Lowe disgraced and almost...
...keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral mastery of the island became deadly serious. Being made ridiculous so often weakened Sir Hudson Lowe's already feeble intelligence. When Napoleon was dying of cancer, vomiting consistently, Lowe damned his agony as more play acting, refused the medical care which Napoleon demanded. After two weeks of his last illness, when his anguish had become intense, Napoleon's main thought...