Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much humble pie as during the current year. Such violent indigestion has this diet given Captain Anthony Eden that last week His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was still recuperating from a near-breakdown in the country. Therefore it was stolid hard-working Sir James Richard Stanhope, ;th Earl Stanhope, who dutifully opened his mouth for a large and bitter slice last week when the Montreux Conference resumed its deliberations in Switzerland...
...Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard detectives dropped around to talk to Herbalist McMahon, but he had already left the house...
Just after noon came the blare of band music and the clatter of hoofs. Down the street rode King Edward, his head almost extinguished under the enormous bearskin of the Grenadier Guards. Behind him clattered his equerry. Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird, and behind him the stolid heir to the throne, the Duke of York...
Basing his work on Sir Edward Creasy's original book, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, which ends with Waterloo; Artist Johnson added Babylon, Crecy, Gettysburg, the First Marne; introduced such characters as Richard Coeur de Lion, Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella. Cyrus of the Persians besieges Babylon (538 B. C.) At Marathon (490 B. C.) Miltiades and the Greeks hew down the Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts...
...Lady Judith Martellon living in a tenement house and patronizing the bar of the Green Man? Why was Ordino's exclusive club so popular? What was Ordino's connection with Lady Judith and Professor Sir Gregory Fawsitt? Who was the man in the long, soiled mackintosh, the man with the deep-set evil eyes and the complexion of a vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent...