Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure appreciate your stopping to pick me up, sir," says the moon-face...
...Charley's aunt, the pretext for inviting the girls, sends word that she can't come. Through a Plot Machination and an Incredible Coincidence, the boys find a substitute "aunt": their friend Fancourt (Adam L. Schwartz) in full drag. A Plot Machination or two later, both Jack's father, Sir Francis (Billy Salloway) and the girls' guardian, Spettigue (Jon Hill) arrive, and both take a shine to the "aunt." Things get worse from there...
Some of the success stories were monumental. British Corporate Raider Sir James Goldsmith, 54, got out of the market well in advance of calamity. In late August he sold his 29% share of Occidentale Generale, a $1.55 billion Paris-based holding company that controls, among other things, the Grand Union supermarket chain, French publishing interests and vast stretches of Northeast U.S. timberland. Goldsmith's profit: $450 million. Having fled the market, Goldsmith declared, "I am a spectator, and will remain a spectator for the time being." An important factor that prompted Goldsmith to bail out of the market...
Faced with a question about urban architectural policy from discussion moderator Dan H. Fenn, lecturer on business administration at the Kennedy School, Johnson elicited laughter by saying, "You, sir, are a professor of government. If you don't know, how should the rest of us know...
...Excuse me, sir. Can you spare some money...