Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little later he called for the check ($100) and tried to get off with a $5 tip. Under icy stares from the waiters, he fished out another $5. Next day, Major General Maharaja Sir Pratapsinha Gaekwar* of Baroda, one of the world's richest men, started his long voyage home to defend himself against charges that he had spent $10 million of state funds during a single six-week spree...
During the week Louis St. Laurent had sessions with Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and one night they drove out to the Country Club to dine with Sir Norman Brook, Secretary to the British Cabinet. This week St. Laurent was going home to Quebec City for a reception worthy of a Prime Minister...
Only one man was ever able to dominate Seattle's unruly orchestra since Karl Krueger left it in 1932. Crusty, goat-bearded Sir Thomas Beecham raged at Seattle as an "esthetic dustbin," but for two years during the war, he had musicians and sellout audiences on the edges of their seats (he sometimes stopped the orchestra in the middle of a movement to lecture the audience on its manners). Such other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors...
...Bounty, Pitcairn had found itself an island of world-wide interest. It had $130,000 in the bank, earned by selling stamps to collectors all over the world. What should be done with the money? The islanders asked Britain's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, lanky Sir Leslie Brian Freeston. Said he: if Pitcairn Islanders would build a school, the British would promise to keep it going in perpetuity. And to show he meant it, his office placed an ad in New Zealand's Education Gazette for a new teacher...