Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quorn was due to meet in Leicestershire's Loughborough last week on Boxing Day when a spasm of horror racked Sir Harold and his subscribers. Word slipped out that a crass and venal Loughborough manufacturer proposed a novel stunt to advertise his pants and shirts. As the Quorn met he would release a fox dressed in shirt and pants...
...Sir Harold is acquainted with the uses of advertising, but at last week's news he flushed pink as his coat. "If this revolting and ridiculous spectacle takes place." he roared, "we shall never again meet in Loughborough...
...That eminent contributor to Punch contended that the House of Commons persistently violates its own Licensing Act by serving alcoholic beverages in its own restaurant without a license. With everyone in holiday spirits, the Lord Chief Justice settled himself on King's Bench and addressed the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip: "I see from the list what the nature of this case is and would like to point out that I am still, through no fault of my own, connected with the Houses of Parliament. Am I free to adjudicate in this case...
...Sir T.: Perhaps I may answer by saying that the application might have been made against the Kitchen Committee-if there is one-of that august tribunal to which your Lordship belongs-the House of Lords. (Laughter...
...usual this year is George V's New Year's Honors List, for the reason that His Majesty is saving up for a spate of honors to be showered down on his Silver Jubilee (May 6, 1935). This week he upped only three subjects to the peerage: Sir Henry Betterton, Sir Wyndham Portal, Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh. To the plethora of titles with which his eldest son is burdened he added those of Admiral of the Fleet, General of the Army, Chief Marshal of the Air Force...