Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jubilee procession (see p. 21), Patiala rode in a State carriage behind his King, together with His Majesty's other Honorary Indian Aides-de-Camp: H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner and the Nawab Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week...
Third was the two-coach procession of learned Sankey, the Lord High Chancellor, who outranks the Prime Minister. Fourth was the procession of the tiniest London Lord Mayor in history, Sir Stephen Killik perched froglike on a seat in the Lord Mayor's Coach especially heightened so that he could be seen...
...radiant at his side was Queen Mary in a gown of hydrangea pink silk net, embroidered with lace, and worn over a slip of dazzling silver cloth, the whole enhanced by a necklace, bracelets and earrings of diamonds and pearls. Roared a huckster from Victoria Monument, "God bless you, Sir! God save...
That British peace dove, elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, Nobel Peace Prizeman and co-author of the Locarno Peace Pact (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925): "If Germany will not be a member of the family, if instead of seeking to negotiate she intends to exert her Will, she will find this country in her path again, and with this country the great free commonwealths [dominions] that cluster around it. And she will have met a force that once again will be her master...
...interest whatever was manifested by the London public last week when 81-year-old Sir John Eldon Bankes, Lord Justice of Appeal (retired), opened with no popping of flashlights or pushing crowds the proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms (TIME, March...