Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examine. In a decorous way they intimated on returning from their stroll to the Buccleuch Arms that things were not as they should be in The Devil's Beef Tub. Instantly the place was swarming with strong-stomached tourists, Scottish villagers and police inspectors. The services of Sir Bernard Spilsbury were not required. Scotland did its own expert pathological sleuthing at Edinburgh University. Soon, except for the fact that one torso remained missing, there were pieced together by two meticulous Scottish University professors remains of a female of 20, provisionally known as "Body No. 1," and another female...
...appointment of the deputy is the direct result of charges by such elder statesmen as Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., that the "thinking machine" of the Prime Minister has proved inadequate to carry the burdens imposed by his rank as Chairman of the Committee of Imperial Defense. In London it was universally predicted that a man of conspicuous energy and brains would be chosen. Among the capital's more blatant newsorgans each has had its favorite candidate, the most arresting being the Daily Mail's choice of an Australian, famed Stanley Melbourne Bruce, kinetic, Conservative, air-minded...
...Lucy. Neither she nor Mr. Baldwin ever pays the slightest attention to newspapers, a circumstance which makes the Prime Minister's acts frequently bewildering to newspaper readers and even more so to their editors. Stanley Baldwin decided to place the Committee of Imperial Defense in the hands of Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip...
...Sir Thomas is President of the Lord's Day Observance Society. He frankly "disapproves of all Papists" and particularly of the Pope. There are, in his opinion, ecclesiastically dangerous radicals among the bishops and archbishops of the Church of England, and, when they led a great battle in Parliament to "reform" the Prayer Book in highfalutin fashion, it was the Low Church, mobilized and led politically by Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, which mightily defeated the High Churchmen and made sure that the Prayer Book shall remain unchanged for many, many years (TIME...
...voice of Sir Thomas is often raised against "the Godless and shameless Bolsheviks of Russia!" It was his ambition as a youth to become a missionary of the gospel, but instead the law claimed him until War carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence...