Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This tiresome chore done, the Frenchmen got busy next morning with Britons who pull more weight in the National Government than does the Prime Minister, namely, Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and such bright younger men as Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, and Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal...
...sir," responded the student. "I spent a great deal of time on the paper...
Black Shirt henchmen said that the precise degree of dedication is calculated from the number of meetings a Mosleyite has attended, his degree of proficiency in Fascist drill and the amount of his success in selling by door-to-door canvassing methods Sir Oswald's party organ, The Black Shirt...
Britons who have "only political minds" or are "lacking the dedicated Black Shirt spirit," Sir Oswald announced, can belong to the great second rank of his party. "This organization," said Sir Oswald, "will be to create propaganda machinery and assist in electioneering. It will work parallel with the dedicated Black Shirts who will use it for Fascism...
Elite Black Shirts, added Leader Mosley, will be used as "ushers" (i.e. bouncers and strong-arm men) at Mosley mass meetings. Until recently the average dedicated Black Shirt carried a rubber blackjack known as a "Mosley truncheon," but this, Sir Oswald insists, has been put aside. "They were only used," he announced dramatically, "after our men had been slashed for weeks by the Communists with razors...