Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: Although the year 1935 will leave a more unified impression on the historian than any of its immediate predecessors, this definiteness is the result of the commencement rather than the completion of several chapters in man's story. It was the first full year of Recovery in the U. S., and the beginning of a coincidental -and possibly related-decline in Franklin Roosevelt's popularity; the first year in which the League of Nations aggressively sought to end a war by punishing its perpetrator; and the year which gave evidence that the age-old machinery of diplomacy...
...high spot in this small but interesting exhibit is a first edition of James Boswell's "Life of Johnson." This quarto was printed in 1791 in two volumes and presented to Sir Joshua Reynolds by the author, whose autograph appears on the title page...
Another case contains a special two-volume edition of "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets." It is "illustrated with portraits, views and autograph letters; water color drawings and proof engravings illustrating Pope's work and translation." Several letters from Dr. Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds are included in this rare book...
After a picture in Hollywood Lanny realized he needed a season in summer stock . . . he's had it and he may be induced to go back to cameras . . . In the meantime on his State Fair and Shou boat programs he remains Sir Lancelot to the nation's girls who play Lady of Shaiott to him by their loudspeakers...
...folio volumes labelled "Autographs of English, Scotch, and Irish Peers; South Sea Documents", which contain the list of victims. Here are to be found the documents and signatures of George II, and Queen Caroline when Prince and Princess of Wales, Lord Chesterfield, the Earl of Buckingham, and Sir Robert Walpole, as well as countless others...