Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goes Forth to War" resound from the roof above Bronson Cutting's copper coffin has seldom sat in one church. There were J. P. Morgan* and A. F. of L.'s William Collins, Walter Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell on Long Island and politicians who abominate them...
Southwest Africa. London took the Liberia idea calmly. But not Premier Hertzog's suggestion of giving up Southwest Africa and Tanganyika. Recently back from his visit to Adolf Hitler, Foreign Minister Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons last week, said...
...three days ago this whole question was resurrected from the grave of innocuous desuetude by a waitress, new to the particular dinning hall, who rashly said a pleasant "Yes, Sir" to the orders of the students, and "You're welcome" to their startled thanks. While she did not make an epochal innovation, still she sounded a note foreign to this great country where people run up escalators, and are all too used to gulping hamburgers thrown at them with bombshell velocity at quick lunches and "one-arm joints...
Placed in St. Dunstan's Church (now Anglican) in Canterbury, the head of Sir Thomas More became an object for Catholic veneration. Lately Anglicans have discussed turning it over to the Catholic Church, for the good reason that Sir Thomas, beatified in 1886, is soon to be a saint. In February Pope Pius XI approved his canonization, publicly welcomed the Blessed Thomas into the company of 140 Englishmen and Scotsmen who, the Church believes, were martyred for the Faith. This week at a semi-public consistory in Vatican City, Catholic bishops and archbishops are to give perfunctory approval...
...Rags is Max Kalik, fiftyish, a suave, affluent bookmaker noted for his $200 suits, his good manners and his sporty English cashier, Sidney ("Sir Sid-ney") Gooch, who wears loud tweeds and speaks with a Cockney accent. A onetime Manhattan ragman, "Kid Rags" operates the biggest book at the smartest U. S. track, Belmont Park, finds most of his trade in Wall Street, specializes in bets from...