Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liveried flunky discreetly roused dapper, white-haired Ramón Serrano Suñer from his siesta. "Two gentlemen to see you, sir, on a most urgent matter...
Academy President (and horse-painter) Sir Alfred Munnings galloped to the defense of the Academy by attacking modernism : "The director of the Tate may be able to tell us why a painting of a head with two noses is better than the landlady's favorite The Bath of Psyche, by Lord Leighton." Old folks generally liked the paintings, too. Said one blackstocking: "They remind me of my youth. Besides, I know what the subject is meant to be. Can't do that with pictures nowadays." Said another: "So frightfully British . . . and I do love the cows...