Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't think there would be ladies." (Flash! Flash! Flash!) Sir Ronald turned to the photographers perched on the staircase behind him. "Haven't you had enough...
...wouldn't the King and Queen visit the chambers of Congress instead of receiving Congress in the Capitol rotunda? His Majesty, Sir Ronald corrected would not receive members of Congress they would receive him. Furthermore His Majesty, restrained by British custom from appearing in the chambers of Parliament except to deliver his annual speech from the throne of the House of Lords,* naturally hesitated to visit the chambers of another country...
Should American men bow from the waist when they meet the King? Sir Ronald thought they might do as he did when meeting the President-"behave in a simple and respectful manner. I certainly make him a bow. Whether it comes from the waist or not I don't know...
Would the Queen "do something human while she is here, like going shopping?" Sir Ronald almost swallowed his walrus-mustache at that one. If shopping became necessary, he thought Her Majesty probably would send her maid...
King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou were murdered at Marseille in 1934 by a professional assassin whose Italian connections were carefully hushed. Two years ago British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe M. Knatchbull-Hugessen was machine-gunned and dangerously wounded by a Japanese plane. During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen. If an incident were needed to start a war, the world has recently had plenty of them...