Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since pudding-headed Rothermere seems fated to fail in all political maneuvers, the Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support of the princes...
Secretary for India Sir Samuel Hoare then won a vote of confidence on the Bill 283-to-89, and Liberal M. P. Isaac Foot gratuitously described Press Lord Rothermere's message as that of a "megalomaniac which should be condemned by all public-spirited people...
...Received from the Government a White Paper proposing a thumping increase in British armaments, viewing German rearmament with alarm. Next day it pretended astonishment when, two days before Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon was to have arrived in Berlin for an attempt to persuade Adolf Hitler to sign with him the famed Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME. Feb. 18), Der Reichsführer abruptly cancelled the parley "on account of a cold...
Dour Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour last week pardoned and set free good Mrs. May Brownhill who was sentenced to Hang after she confessed, "I did put Dennis to sleep with 100 sleeping tablets, and before I left him I did turn...
...there sufficient space for the ships to maneuver in safety? Admiral Bailey's defender in court (known officially as "the Prisoner's Friend") was his immediate predecessor in command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, Vice Admiral William Milburne James, grandson of the late great painter Sir John Everett Millais and known to all the British Navy as "Bubbles...