Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in gold-frogged jacket and white-plumed hat, Sir Sidney Barton, Minister of His Britannic Majesty to the Ethiopian Court, climbed last week the steps of the Imperial Palace at Addis Ababa to deliver the terms of a peace proposal to give Italy approximately half of Ethiopia, His Excellency could scarcely have dreamed that his secret and urgent covering instructions would be published to the world a few days later in a British White Paper "by command of His Majesty George...
Over on the rubber counter, an old attendant was busy helping his customers and watching out for sneak thiefs. He took great pride in the fact that "the greatest college" owned what appeared to him the greatest store in the world. "Yes, sir," he said, "I know Harvard is the owner; they've had it for over fifty years...
...speech closed with a great buttering of Japan as Sir Samuel alluded to the current reduction of North China to the status of a Japanese puppet (see p. 22) in these terms: "I can only regard as unfortunate that events should have taken place which, whatever the actual truth of the matter may be, lend color to the belief that Japanese influence is being exerted to shape Chinese internal political developments and administrative arrangements. Anything which tends to create this belief can only do harm to the prestige of Japan and hamper the development, which we all desire...
...General Motors director received from the company no salary or other remuneration. He is Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, K. B. E., of London. Sir Harry has means of support other than General Motors. He is Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., British counterpart of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...stuff-suit, with a shoulder belt, according to the new style, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced with fine lace, of the color of my suit; and so, very handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought the occasion to borrow six pounds which...