Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dear Sir," came a child's voice from the direction of Anatole France, "we shan't have time for an argument here; but if I may say so, Mr. Philosopher, sometimes I feel that the smallest little ragamuffin who goes along the road with his shirt tail sticking out through a hole in his pantaloons knows more about what is real and important than all you old spectacled people in your institutions and academies. To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. I am imaginary. That is to exist, I should certainly think. I am dreamed...
...maintains a mortuary book in which he enters the names of eminent friends when they die. Among the 300 names already inscribed are Thomas Alva Edison, William Howard Taft, General William Crawford Gorgas, General George Washington Goethals, Sir William Osier...
...what the U. S. could do about composing the quarrel. His confidential scurryings about the embattled chancelleries of Europe accomplished nothing, gave off "a strong suggestion of innocence in a den of suspicious gangsters." High point of the House diplomacy was the now-famed memorandum (1916) he gave Sir Edward Grey, English Foreign Minister. In this "extraordinary document'' House practically promised U. S. aid to the Allies in the event of Germany's refusal of Allied peace terms; Grey promised literally nothing. Sir Edward also completely captivated the U. S. Ambassador, Walter Hines Page, had him eating...
...after England declared war on Germany the German cables were cut; from then on there was "nearly absolute Allied command over all channels of communication and opinion." Sir Gilbert Parker, head of the British bureau "responsible for American publicity." handed out to delighted U. S. correspondents free articles from such noted writers as Kipling, Wells, Galsworthy. Arnold Bennett; distributed propaganda material broadcast to U. S. libraries, educational institutions and periodicals; "was particularly careful to arrange for lectures, letters and articles by pro-Ally Americans rather than by Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group...
...starvation came, at the moment, not from the Germans-but from the British Navy! . . . Mr. Whitlock was working earnestly, in co-operation with the German authorities and a Belgian committee, to rescue starving Belgium from the British blockade." In 1915 a book called Defenceless America, by the brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, machine-gun inventor, raised goosebumps on thousands of U. S. necks. It was made into a cinema called The Battle Cry of Peace...