Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old 21st Earl of Enroll, last of a line of Hereditary Lord High Constables of Scotland dating from 1315. He was roundly called a "blackguard" in London, last week, by Judge Sir Maurice Hill who assessed $15,000 damages against him as the corespondent in a successful divorce suit brought by Major Cyril S. R. Hill. "Mrs. Hill," said Judge Hill (no relation), "is a woman of the lowest character and a liar, perhaps due to the influence of the corespondent...
...charge of "truckling to Mussolini" was hurled by Liberal and Labor news organs, last week, at Sir Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's lanky, imperturbable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
...imputed truckle was Sir Austen's failure to protest, last week, after two Fascist detectives in Milan had assaulted, clubbed and kicked not merely a British subject but Captain Delafons...
...Sir Austen Chamberlain finally noticed the Labor-Liberal clamor by announcing to the House of Commons that, "in deference to the strongly expressed wish of Captain Delafons himself, His Majesty's Ambassador at Rome has authorized the Italian authorities not to prosecute the assailants, who made a strong plea for mercy...
Since the "wishes" of a King's Messenger can scarcely be other than those of His Majesty's Government, Sir Austen had said nothing to disprove the unparliamentary charge that he had truckled...