Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aide, Archie Butt, the President said, "Why, that is your college, too," and Major Butt nodded assent. Then turning to his third guest, the Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas, without whom the Panama Canal could not have been built, "And where were you educated, Gorgas?" the President asked. "Sewanee, sir," came the General's answer...
...Peppered Sir Arthur Michael Samuel, one of Britain's greatest financial-legal experts and onetime Financial Secretary to the Treasury, for an opinion on the U. S. Supreme Court's gold clause decision...
...This solitude has, after two years, become oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion. Two years of snow and crawling things have improved Dinsmore neither in appearance nor technique, in fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue...
...King's amusing antics and handsome presence are admirably supported by the statuesque beauty of Doris Dalton as Ethel, the copious blonde-topped charms of Ona Munson as Clara, and tab-collared cinema Englishness of Leo Carroll as Sir James...
...accuracy when he remarks (hat Rolls-Royce was the only make of car his family ever used, and then prints a photograph of his father driving him in a pre-War Packard. He becomes incredible with such an anecdote as the one in which he has the late Sir Douglas Haig tap him on the shoulder and inquire: "I say, American, how long do you think this bally war will last?" He admits he lost his entire share of the family estate ($1,903,000) in his ill-advised venture into tabloid publishing. He repeats the story (for which General...