Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case must also be cited, as witnessed by Sir Arnold Hodson, of a woman buried up to her neck for three days until some one finished her with a large rock. With absolute indifference for life, lepers numbering about 100,000 are permitted to wander freely in Ethiopia, with the perpetual danger of contagion...
...Edward of Wales, aboard the Duke of Westminster's yacht, drew his pistol and fired repeatedly at some white fish with long tails seen leaping in the Corsican moonlight. Said Equerry Major Sir John Aird, "The sounds of the shots must have made the Corsicans think someone was murdering His Highness...
...live years Sir Malcolm Campbell has been trying to learn how it would feel to drive Bluebird, his 2,500-h.p., 28 ft., 6-ton automobile, at 300 m.p.h. Last week at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, he found...
...Sir Malcolm managed to stop but before he did so, he had a blowout...
This was on the Eden side of the Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally...