Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flashing the order on cinema screens at Portland and circulating it among the pubs. In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet's immediate commander aboard the 33,500-ton battleship Nelson, Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced back-house...
...Dear Sir...
President. Last year at Aberdeen, Sir Josiah Stamp, voluble economist, director of the Bank of England, chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, engaged in a spirited, if indirect, debate with Sir James Jeans. Sir Josiah contended in effect that science was causing too much technological unemployment, had better take a holiday (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). This year at Norwich the same Sir Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which...
...made it possible for the British film industry to improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London was preceded, not by a mere broadcast, but by a Gaumont-British banquet at which the guests of honor were Lord Tweedsmuir, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, Minister for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister and their ladies...
...Paramount), a collection of specialty acts by radio entertainers, might have been much more satisfactory if its producers had not insisted on incorporating them into a story. Any narrative framework designed to include Amos 'n' Andy, Ray Noble, Ethel Merman, Henry Wadsworth, Lyda Roberti, Burns & Allen, Sir Guy Standing, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby, the Vienna Choir Boys and Bill Robinson could scarcely be distinguished for its spontaneity. The device which shackles them together in The Big Broadcast is a "tele-radio" set in which Oakie...