Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...
Actual arrival was on Monday, the Queen Mary docking almost exactly five days after she sailed, but the fact that she did not on her maiden voyage win the Blue Ribbon had been discounted not only days but months and years in advance by Sir Percy Elly Bates, Cunard White Star's long-jawed Flintshire chairman, whose gold spectacles have such long frames that the lenses rest on the very tip of his long nose, and whose jutting jaw makes his friends call him "Chin" Bates. Much like the late great Calvin Coolidge in the dryness of his remarks...
...Italy's war with Ethiopia was last week spotted by doctors as being an Anglicized Italian, Knight Commander of the order of St. Michael and St. George, Sir Aldo Castellani, whose wife is English and whose only daughter two years ago married British High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson. Italy's No. 1 enemy in Ethiopia was disease and Sir Aldo is a world-famed specialist in tropical diseases. Most of his experience he acquired as a medical officer of the British Colonial Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year...
...conditioned hospital ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
Last winter world headlines told of Italian hospital ships unloading thousands of Italian sick in secret sick dumps on the island of Rhodes, of countless Italian crosses on the plains of Eritrea. Sir Aldo smiled. Last week, arriving in Addis Ababa, he made his health report on the Italo-Ethiopian...