Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known to all England: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, tall, suave, icy board chairman of huge British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.; and Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, bald, brainy head of Midland Bank, world's largest, and onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Lady Astor continued to be comforted by the stolid Toryism of the House of Chamberlain, mere second-generation though it is. Sir Austen Chamberlain, he of the affrighting icy monocle, grows dim; but even without a monocle his brother Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, remains perhaps the world's most formidable Tory. Last week Mr. Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons, and Labor in particular, with such withering conservative rebuke that even when he referred to Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed," no M. P. ventured the impertinence of interrupting to observe that Government...
...Sir Oswald Mosley James Ramsay MacDonald...
...South Atlantic soon found that St. Helena's was a poor climate for noble sentiments. Though their English captors attempted, in their way, to be humane, their blundering tactlessness soon drove the exiles to a frenzy of outraged sensibility. Napoleon's honor was touchy, and Sir Hudson Lowe, the British Governor, was a choleric, literal-minded martinet. The French and their warders were at loggerheads from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience and a gaoler from taste." Napoleon and his entourage shut themselves up in Longwood, their uncomfortable quarters...
When Napoleon finally refused to have anything to do with Sir Hudson, hid himself in the house, the Governor ordered a luckless officer to report daily on his prisoner's presence. For weeks the officer and Napoleon played hide-&-seek. After fruitless days of snooping, the desperate man broke into Longwood one day, caught Napoleon in the bathtub, was pursued down passageways with royal imprecations. When Napoleon, for something to do, had a sunken garden built, the excavations to Sir Hudson's fevered mind, looked like earthworks...