Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...
Basil Cochrane Newton, British Minister at Prague, who delivered the British ultimatum to President Eduard Benes, and John Troutbeck, first secretary of the British Legation at Prague, were made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order...
...richest rewards among the four new peerages, two baronetcies, 35 knighthoods and miscellaneous decorations distributed went to a gifted scientist who has brought his subject to the masses and a sailor who has brought the British Navy up to snuff. His Majesty was graciously pleased to add Sir James Jeans (The Mysterious Universe, etc.) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield to the Order of Merit (British membership limited...
...ornithologists and explorers, magicians and Presidents of the U. S. Actors have always formed a powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield, and the club's three Presidents who followed Booth-Joseph Jefferson, John Drew and Walter Hampden...
...time is the olden days; the place, an assiduously merrie England. Principal characters are two boys-Kay, a toad of a child, and the Wart, who turns out to be King Arthur. Kay's father, Sir Ector, is a ruddy country gentleman who wants the lads to have a proper "eddication," decides to hire a tutor. By accident the Wart finds just the man-one Merlyn...