Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When news of this reached Vice Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little, Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron at Shanghai, he was so incensed that he postponed a scheduled trip to Japan. In London, news of the Japanese provocation at Keelung was kept secret long after the facts were known at the British Admiralty, and not a single Japanese newsorgan carried so much as a line on the Keelung ordeal...
Engaged. Hon. Margaret Gwendolen Mary Drummond, 31, eldest daughter of British Ambassador to Italy Sir Eric Drummond; and John Walker III, 29, of Pittsburgh, now at Rome's American Academy; in London...
...Died. Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, 57, famed British criminal lawyer, three weeks ago named chairman of the London Court of Sessions; after collapsing at a Greyhound Racing Association dinner at the moment he was joking about his weight (252 lb.); in London. In his only (1924) campaign for Parliament, he promised to kiss each of the 16,269 women constituents of Chelmsford, was elected...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Donald Kelly, 65, Naval Aide to King Edward VIII, who rose from a cadet at 13 to first lieutenant in the Boer War, Fourth Sea Lord of the Admiralty in 1924, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1931; in London. When Atlantic Fleet sailors rebelled at pay-cuts in 1931, he dashed to Invergordon, quelled mutiny...
Although Chestertonian paradoxes are less frequent in his Autobiography than in the famed Father Brown stories, or The Man Who Was Thursday, they abound in his portraits of his contemporaries: Shaw, Wells, Belloc, Cunninghame Graham, Max Beerbohm, Sir James Barrie. Alternately scolding and admiring, he says that Shaw is no Irish rebel, that he is too "pro-British," a charge he seems to feel should cut the Irish dramatist to the quick. Chesterton and Shaw fought for 20 years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being...