Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unguarded Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an elaborate demonstration of the not particularly startling hypothesis that any man's life contains moments when his whereabouts, if later questioned, would be hard to prove. Lady Dearden (Loretta Young) agrees to pay a blackmailer ?2,000 for letters written by Sir Alan Dearden (Franchot Tone) to his onetime mistress. At her rendezvous with the blackmailer Lady Dearden encounters two tourists. When, with Sir Alan Dearden as prosecutor, one of the tourists goes on trial for pushing the other one off a cliff, this chance meeting makes Lady Dearden a key witness...
...worked among Italians, published a newspaper called La Verita, taught Dogmatic Theology at St. Charles, was diocesan censor of books, moderator of priests in conference, presiding judge of the diocesan matrimonial court and finally chancellor of the diocese. A brilliant preacher, lie made the principal address when Désiré Cardinal Mercier of Belgium visited Philadelphia in the autumn of 1919. For 14 years Monsignor Corrigan has conducted what is believed to be the largest laymen's retreat league in the U. S., at Malvern, Pa., where last year 4,100 male Catholics prayed and studied...
...SIR WALTER RALEGH-Edward Thompson-Yale University Press...
Thus begins one of the most famed passages in English prose. Its author though posterity does not seem to think he knew how to spell his own name was one of the most brilliant figures of his brilliant day. Sir Walter Raleigh, whom his latest biographer calls "the last of the Elizabethans," spelled his name three different ways (Rawleyghe, Rauley, Ralegh) but never signed himself Raleigh. Biographer Thompson lists 68 different spellings used by his contemporaries. The Spaniards, to whom Raleigh was Public Enemy No. 1, called him various guttural equivalents, such as "Guatteral." However they spelled Raleigh...
Elizabeth's favor was more than a little hampering to Ralegh. While he had it. she refused to let him endanger his precious skin. While less valued sailors were chivying Spain's great Armada to its doom. Ralegh was kept chafing in London. When Sir Richard Grenville sailed on his fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic...