Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sir W. M. Flinders Petric, British archacologist, visited the temple and the mines and found proto-Sinattic inscriptions in an unknown script, apparently a Semitic alphabet derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, of great interest to philologists. Harvard expeditions in 1927 and 1930 visited Serabit and carried forward Petrie's investigations of the temple and mines, but no excavation of the temple was attempted...
...mettle nowadays is the Home Office's great criminal pathologist. Thrice in a twelvemonth Sir Bernard has failed to solve spectacular murder cases: The Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1; the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 2; and the Case of the Waterloo Legs-limbs which, as Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Daily Express never tires of repeating, were found under the seat of a Waterloo railway train wrapped in a copy of the Daily Express...
...others they might seem just freckles. To Sir Bernard Spilsbury the freckles on the Brentford Torso were scientific twins of the freckles on the Waterloo Legs...
...that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman. Not a mystery of Spilsbury calibre but England's robustious crime of the week was the preliminary police court hearing...
...Added Sir Alan Cobham, a pioneer England-to-Australia flyer: "The possibilities of strafing from the air have become so uncivilized that it has become beyond war. Lord Castlerosse knows nothing about...