Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Britain's Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, set out from Hong Kong to have a talk with Chiang Kaishek. That is not an easy thing to do nowadays. Sir Archibald had to hire an airplane, fly five or six hundred miles inland over a maze of twisting rivers and search out the Generalissimo "somewhere in Hunan Province...
When proper Sir Archibald arrived at Shanghai he would say no more than that he had found Chiang "well-very fit and optimistic-serenely confident of ultimate victory." What he did not say-and what officials in China's new capital at Chung-king did say-was that the fit Generalissimo had just talked to the proper Ambassador more plainly than any big Chinese had ever talked to a big Britisher...
Chivalry doesn't pay was the lesson learned by a would be Sir Walter Raleigh from Dunster House yesterday afternoon...
...first: Four Saints in Three Acts. For her Faust, British Composer Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners, is writing the music...
...author of the dialogue-which contains a discussion of Great Britain's defensive policy against aggressor nations-was Sir Robert Yan-sittart, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office. *After attending a San Diego preview of Submarine Patrol, Actor Greene last fortnight set off with his valet on a hunting trip in the Kaibab National Forest. When he failed to telephone his mother as he had promised, forest rangers, rail-road agents, and 100 CCC workers, started a search for Actor Greene. Twenty-four hours later, he was discovered at Williams, Ariz...