Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thursday, March 29, Sir Herbert Ames will speak on "The League of Nations and the Protection of Minorities". Sir Berbert is a Canadian, at present in this country. He was for many years a member of the Canadian Parliament, and for seven years the Financial Secretary of the League of Nations. The lecture will take place in Harvard 6 at 2 o'clock...
...composer and lyricist could have presented a happier and more seasonable combination than the delightful Victorian couple. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, are perfect in themselves, but when they are sung to Sir Arthur's music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of a season that, alas, seems all too tardy in arriving--which reminds one that The Mikado is still wandering somewhere between New York and Boston, and that Spring is unofficial until Winthrop Ames has sent his latest revival to lead those bored with sophistication to the Plymouth...
...Said Sir Percy: "Advices from Jerusalem should be regarded with caution. . . . It is certain that a rupture with Great Britain would be extremely repugnant to Ibn Saud...
...London the first word of clear council to cut through the babbling of the press came from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, who was the first British High Commissioner to Irak (1920-23) and has treated personally with Ibn Saud...
...railway trains. Her important war role came later, in helping to tidy up the British victories and install the Government of Irak at Bagdad. Very womanly at heart and just a shade Victorian, she thus describes the arrival at Bagdad of her chief, the first High Commissioner to Irak, Sir Percy...