Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arkansas : ''By God, Sir...
...Sir, when "better defaults are had, Arkansas will have them." Not for nothing has this great Commonwealth defaulted three times since the great "Wall" (1861-65). I would like you to know there is one unfailing characteristic we of the Bible Belt are proud of in Arkansas from Chicot to Washington County and from Miller County to Mississippi County: we can, and by God Sir, will break each and every agreement or promise we made to any blue-bellied Yankee...
Nobody knew quite so well as Mr. Eden that the international peace effort, begun when he and British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon called on Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 1), was cracking up last week. The Lord Privy Seal's head swam as his plane took off for London. On approaching Cologne he had to be set down, tottered to a hotel where for two hours he lay on his back, knowing only that he "felt queer...
...firm believer that one can always buck up and that "the war was won on the playing fields of Eton" is Eton's gallant Eden. He was up next day and on a train for London, dictating to worried aides. He seemed fit, though tired, when Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon met him at the station. Two days later the Lord Privy Seal's doctors told him he was suffering from serious heart strain, made him cancel all engagements for six weeks. With pert and pretty Mrs. Eden hovering at his bedside, Captain Eden had the rare honor...
...Italy which commit her beyond all recall. To use a phrase dear to Grey, "British public opinion would never sanction" such a commitment. Britain is unlikely to do more than express her strong disapproval of recent events in Germany. She will doubtless indulge herself, through the mouths of Sir John Simon and Ramsay MacDonald, in many pious wishes, none of which, because of the armament situation, are possible of solution...