Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shift showed that the trade unionists had lost and the technocrats had won. Sir Stafford Cripps, who has just eclipsed Herbert Morrison as the No. 1 economic wizard, will have men of the "manager" rather than the "leader" type around him. Apparently, Attlee had decided that Britain's workers would remain politically loyal to the Labor Party even if some of their own men were removed from key spots...
...rehearsal, the musicians of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gaped at the unwonted spectacle of their crustaceous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, taking advice and instruction. His adviser, standing next to the podium, was a stumpy, balding little old man in a frayed brown suit. Once, when the little man whispered in Beecham's ear, the conductor stopped, said: "We are reminded that by this time in the work Don Quixote is sadder but wiser...
...thunderously applauded. Up in his box, his watery blue eyes more liquid than usual, the great composer, 83-year-old Richard Strauss, bowed jerkily, first to the orchestra, then to the audience. Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas...
...concert, he replied that one concert would not be worth his while. Britain was poor, but not too poor to help. Last week's concert was the first of six in a Strauss festival: two he will conduct himself; the others will be given in his honor. Wealthy Sir Thomas (Beecham Pills) and the BBC chipped in with extra concerts. From a waitress came a ten-shilling postal order "because I come from a musical family." The British Treasury promised to "consider favorably" a proposal that Strauss be allowed to take $4,000 in Britain's precious sterling...
...bedside manner" gone out of fashion? Not with Britain's famed general practitioner, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, 63, longtime physician to British Olympic teams. Last week he told Westminster Hospital students...