Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir: I wish to second the nomination [by B. G. Hoos, TIME, May 9] of the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill as the Man of the Half-Century...
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...When sir Stafford Cripps announced devaluation in September, he spoke in terms of millions of people and billions of pounds and dollars. But people don't all come in millions; there are 16 people at Harvard now who have been affected considerably by Sir Stafford's decision...
...including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned one such card to Sir Osbert. "They say the President is a Perfect Dear...
Something Impalpable. "Just as in autumn," cries Sir Osbert Sitwell, casting his radiant glance back over the Firbank life work, "the silver cobwebs lightly cover the trees with a thin mist of impalpable beauty, so a similar . . . intangible loveliness hung over every page, while wit ran in, round, and underneath each word...