Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning to leave the House immediately after he ended his speech, Sir Samuel, blinded by his tears, half missed his footing on the stair and reeled. Sympathetic M. P.s rushed to prop him up and out amid an ovation fit for the King...
Britannia: "Help!" In the weary hours of debate preceding midnight teary Sir Austen's tearless half-brother Neville Chamberlain, the hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer, went a long way toward announcing what policy in the Ethiopian crisis is now to be followed by Britain. "If the League of Nations should decide that oil sanctions should be applied." said Mr. Chamberlain, "and that they can be effective-and should we be satisfied that all members of the League are not only ready to give us assurances but are also prepared to take their part in meeting...
...Sir Archibald Sinclair: "The Prime Minister is for peace at any price, so long as it costs Britain and France nothing...
Confidence was voted 397 to 165 in His Majesty's Government just before midnight. Nothing contributed more powerfully to this than a firmly chiseled passage in which Sir Samuel Hoare had shown that the application of oil sanctions entails a supreme risk not only of world war in a few weeks or months but of an immediate, an almost instantaneous Italo-British war. Elsewhere in his speech "Flying Sam," personally a sportsman of courage, denied that Great Britain is afraid, but he won not a few votes for Squire Baldwin by chilling the marrow of the King-Emperor...
Four days later the Vice President bowled into the White House, met RFChairman Jesse Jones. Had Texan Garner really appeared before Emperor Hirohito in his stocking feet? inquired Texan Jones. "No, sir," said Texan Gar ner, "they didn't make me take off my shoes." Pulling up his trousers, he ex hibited white socks above his high boots. ''See those? Well, they're the same socks I wore when I left Washington. Yep, Mrs. Garner washed them every day and darned them twice...