Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven sitting rooms of the Sitwell family seat, Renishaw, were used as studies by Sir George. Piled upon their floors like snowdrifts were heaps of documents concerning his incredible projects and affairs. Boxes of papers were neatly labeled, though not often correctly: thus, the box inscribed "Osbert's Debts" might well contain instead papers on "Pig-Keeping in the 13th Century," or "The Use of the Bed," or "My Advice on Poetry...
...Malacca cane clenched between his teeth, in order to observe his latest building schemes from a fresh angle. But once, as Osbert remembers it, he did demean his noble station-when his butler, whose wages were overdue, politely requested an accounting. Shocked to the core by this impudence, Sir George stalked the shrinking varlet slowly across the room, finally whispered in his ear the terrible words: "Shut your ugly...