Word: sir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers far too small to be effective. If Brilliant Mind Winston Churchill and Brilliant Mind Lloyd George, whose ideas were squelched...
...House of Eden's shining light is Anthony, but its head is his elder brother, Sir Timothy Eden, Bart. No politician, tweedy Sir Timothy lives a squire's life in Durham County has written two books (The Tribulations of a Baronet, Five Dogs and Two More), likes to dash off oil paintings of friends in the family armor, himself amid the family books. Last week Londoners were getting their first look at the eighth Baronet's paintings in a solo show at Tooth's. Off-dashedest: portrait of Brother Anthony...
Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 7 sides). Best recording to date of a slight, charming work, written when the composer...
Tschaikowsky: Serenade in C Major (B. B. C. Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). First modern recording, superb in its string sonorities, of a popular standby...
...Married. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 47, University of Toronto professor, who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin; and Henrietta Ball, 27, laboratory technician; his second, her first; in Toronto...