Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning more than 50 male and female reporters trooped into the austere British Embassy, so many that the Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay had to meet them in the spacious entrance hall. Standing on the staircase obviously frightened, His Excellency was made no more comfortable by the activities of extremely irreverent photographers...
...will be provided. Tea will be served under smaller marquees. The hard drink bar will be around a corner, out of sight. Guests must remain until Their Majesties withdraw. Then "the garden gates will be opened and the guests will leave," unhandshaken (because of their number) by moose-tall Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay, whose last official performance in Washington this will...
...icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead, and on the Empress the siren sounded mournful blasts at intervals as it slowed to a halt. Thenceforth Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley North allowed the Royal flotilla to proceed only with extreme caution. In four-and-a-half days it advanced only 172 miles. On the Empress, George and Elizabeth invited all hands to movie shows of travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should...
...English news, jokes, gems from the London Times. London newspaper stories were hurriedly translated by German journalists in London, telephoned to Berlin, retranslated into more Munchausen English and waved back to Britain twelve hours later. When the laughter continued, the Propaganda Ministry grudgingly hired an Englishman, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts, at 1,000 marks ($400) a month to do the job the British way. Attempting to get across in a me-to-you, or Boake Carter way, he remarked in his tryout broadcast: "I admit that I am a renegade, but I am still...
Died. Frank Moulan, 63, veteran Gilbert & Sullivan baritone ("Ko-Ko," "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," "Sir Joseph Porter") ; in Manhattan...