Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Britons had been basking in the sunny news of increased production and exports, unmindful of Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps's warnings of storms ahead (TIME, Jan. 19). Observers noted some black facts...
Last week in London, Glubb Pasha was asked how tall he is. He turned to a staff officer for his opinion. "I'm six feet," was the officer's candid, if tactless reply; "and I would judge, sir, that you are about five-foot...
...sir," said his inferior, acquiescent but unconvinced...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable...