Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meyers: "Yes, sir. Jesse Jones and the President and everyone else seems to be in this. ... It is full of dynamite...
Fifty miles from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island and twice as far from Newfoundland, the islands have passed from the French to Newfoundland to Quebeo. They were one of the last outposts of feudalism in the western world: George III gave them to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin for services to the Crown, and for a century they paid tribute to Coffin's heirs...
...anybody who had seen the premiere of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, in 1895. A few dozen oldsters who responded got tickets to another premiere of An Ideal Husband, this time a movie starring Paulette Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international movie business, Korda was making a comeback from...
...those who cried that the British movie industry was not doing its job of making up for U.S. films kept out by the new tax (TIME, Aug. 18), Sir Alexander said: "There exists no crisis in the British film-producing industry. . . . Twenty-four so-called A pictures are in active production in Hollywood ... 20 in British studios. ... So long as the British moviemaker retains his creative independence ... he will win through...
...Died. Sir Alexander Paterson, 62, Britain's kindly Commissioner of Prisons for 25 years before his retirement last January, a leader in modern prison reform; in London...