Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East recently identified Major Hardinge as the official who never tires of advocating greater dignity in His Majesty's affairs and is tortured by informal reporting of Edward VIII in either British or U. S. publications. With the King on holiday is his actual private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, who for 15 years was his official Private Secretary when Edward was Prince of Wales. Arrested and fined for speeding near London fortnight ago, Hardinge said to the constable with dignity: "I have done worse things than this, and I have no doubt you have too." To devoted Hardinge...
...Sir Samuel Hoare, who at no distant time may be British Prime Minister, that Chancellor Hitler took a crack in these words of the Proclamation...
...Sir Samuel was British Foreign Secretary when he made his experimental plea to Germany that she be satisfied by a guarantee from the Great Powers that they would in all circumstances let her have access to raw materials (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). This sop the present British Foreign Secretary, Captain Anthony Eden, still keeps talking about from time to time. Meanwhile Sam Hoare has become First Lord to make the British Admiralty so strong that London will no longer have to soft-soap Berlin. Last week the distinctly pro soft-soap Times of London almost lost patience on reading...
Etymologists have long recognized the difference between U. S. and British English, but it was a layman, Henry Louis Mencken (The American Language), who first popularized the idea that U. S. citizens speak a tongue of their own. Eleven years ago the University of Chicago asked slight, bearded Professor Sir William Alexander Craigie, since 1901 co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, to collect in definitive form the words that have meanings and currency peculiar to the U. S. Last week in Chicago appeared the first section, A-to-Baggage, of his long-awaited Dictionary of American English on Historical...
...Sir William decided that to be admitted a word must have originated in the U. S., or disappeared in England since it arrived in the U. S., or changed its meaning since immigration from England. A candidate must have been in use before 1900. This ruled out slang† since Sir William found: "Slang and dialect words . . . can be treated with proper fulness only in separate dictionaries...