Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's foremost cartoonist, Low has for some time had as his piece-de-resistance an elderly Englishman, ample of girth, in a Turkish bath setting, usually making some remark of a topical nature beginning with "Gad sir...
...Simpson in the Times, but to the point of making a verbal intimation. Mr. Dawson was correct in assuming that this would be cabled to the U. S., whence it would speed to Buckingham Palace (where clippings by the bale were being sorted last week by Assistant Private Secretary Sir Godfrey Thomas) and be read by King Edward, perhaps with good effect. Said Times Editor Dawson: "The King is going to finish with Mrs. Simpson finally and gracefully...
...Other and even more weighty Britons than the editor of the Times joined cautiously last week in the strange game of saying things off the record which they knew would be rushed into print outside England but not inside. Thus the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, one of the Empire's greatest legal minds, while refusing to address himself to the judicial aspects of a marriage of the King & Mrs. Simpson, intimated that already His Majesty's conduct is fairly disgraceful...
...Sir Thomas Inskip, the pompous new Secretary for Coordination of Defense (TIME, March 23), reported on British Rearmament in an emotional rather than factual vein, "I have never believed and refuse to believe that war is inevitable," affirmed Sir Thomas. "I am not going to admit the British Navy has met an opponent which cannot be mastered.... It is suggested that the growth of air power has destroyed our historic security as an island. That is only a fraction of the truth. . . . We have a long start over anyone who is ill-advised enough to meddle with our freedom...
Perhaps the description of approaching death which Physiologist Sir Joseph Barcroft presented at Yale last month (TIME, Oct. 19) influenced Dr. Harold Henry Beiermeister, 53, long ill, retired physician of Needham, Mass. Certainly the imminence of death did not terrify him when an excruciating attack of angina pectoris gripped his heart last week. Alone in the house he shared with a sister, he locked all doors, filled a hot water bottle, took pencil & paper, stretched out on the kitchen floor...