Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuffed shirts are the Royal Commissioners who include Sir Philip ("Now It Can Be Told") Gibbs, humanitarian Editor J. Alfred Spender and antiopium crusading Dame Rachel Crowdy. But British linen is simply not washed amid cascades of abuse...
...With Adolf Hitler building submarines, the marriage in London last week of a daughter of First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell proved irresistibly attractive to the Frenchman who directs his country's naval armaments. Minister of Marine null Pietri. After the wedding M. Pietri disappeared with Sir Bolton into the library...
...Vice Admiral Sir Hugh J. Tweedie to the annual meeting last week of the Union Jack Club: "It may be that all of us in the services are going to see hard times. Most of the British fleet is now working overseas. There may be a cure for that. Adolf Hitler, like his predecessor, may see that our service is once more in home waters...
...Foreign Office it was emphasized that Sir John Simon still hopes Adolf Hitler will return Germany to the League and resume general negotiations for treaty limitation of Europe's armaments...
Once King Henry VIII loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle...