Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hilt-was not aware that this capture had taken place. The U.S. people, most of whom would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...
...damnable piece of impertinence -Cripps at his blasted governessing again," said an industrialist, sipping his Pimm's No. 1 on the terrace of Pall Mall's Royal Automobile Club. In London last week there was thunder from both left and right when Britain's economic boss, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced that he had asked for American advice on how to increase British production...
...Coventry was shaken with historical controversy: Should that old Coventryite, Lady Godiva, be shown riding her horse sidesaddle or astride? For years an 1898 painting by Artist John Collier (see cut) had been hanging in the city's council chambers. But it had lately been joined by Sir Edwin Landseer's sidesaddle version, and local school authorities were raising holy Ned. Children just should not be exposed to such a thing, they protested. Their objection: the sidesaddle was unknown in Godiva's day, 900 years ago; the children were being given an entirely erroneous impression of history...
...from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer on his way to the scene. On a landing he caromed into big-bellied Publisher E. W. Scripps, who picked him up, held him at arm's length and asked what was the hurry. Piped Seltzer indignantly: "Put me down, sir, put me down! I'm covering a story...
...dives and nightclubs for not-so-fresh material ("Paris is not the same since they closed The Sphinx,"* he says). Recently returned from a tour of Vienna lowlife, he is at work on a new thriller and a movie script (The Third Man) for Producers David O. Selznick and Sir Alexander Korda. His slumming adventures are received by his family with mixed feelings. His white-haired old mother very naturally writes them off as nonexistent, says firmly of the use to which her son puts his escapades: "Graham must imagine it." But his aunt looks the other way and admits...