Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the fat Swiss scrubwomen of the League of Nations were excited last week about Russia. As for M. Josef Avenol, the secretive, suspicious Frenchman who last year succeeded popular Sir Eric Drummond as League Secretary General, he became almost human. Secretary Avenol is a recluse who lives in a vast Geneva villa jammed with works of art and historical manuscripts he has picked up on his extensive travels. When Japan and then Germany quit the League, mournful M. Avenol prepared for the worst (TIME, Oct. 23). "The League has lost popularity and prestige," he croaked...
Senator Carter Glass sailed for England to seek fresh evidence in support of his militant belief that Sir Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare...
...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...
...Sir Henri had left the famed semicircular desk in St. Helen's Court, London, from which he rules the world's biggest producer of crude petroleum, to see with his own sharp eyes what the U. S. had done about oil. Said he darkly: "It is nothing short of amazing that you have regulatory laws to meet a situation and yet do nothing about it. As we are well aware some people do not like law and order but we must nevertheless have it. What a wicked waste it is to tap resources today that will be sorely needed...
...Sir Henri announced last week that the prime purpose of his visit was to confer with his old friend Walter C. Teagle of Standard Oil. "There is always," said he, "enough to talk about when oil men get together." But to a newshawk who asked him if a world oil conference was likely this year, he shot back: "What can be done until you put your house in order...