Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued. When Wallace suggested that "new faces" were needed to reach an "understanding" with the Soviet Union, Wisconsin's Republican Representative Lawrence Smith remarked that he did, indeed, hope to see some new faces in the Administration after November. Wallace shot back: "I thank you for your support, sir...
H.M.S. Sheffield, flagship of the American Gulf & West Indies Squadron, had just done Britain's honors at the inaugural cf Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos. Last week, she lay at anchor off the Colombian coast, while her handsome senior officer, Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to pay courtesy calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment...
...other clues weren't much help: the strains of Annie Laurie and Auld Lang Syne; a neighing, galloping horse (Eddie Cantor was a wrong guess); cat yowls; a horn tootling. Columnists and rocking-chair dopesters were certain they had it. Some of the "sure things": Sir Harry Lauder, George Gallup, Mayor O'Dwyer, Jack Benny, Gene Tunney, All-America Fullback Doak Walker...