Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only one of them with a husband in the House. Husband Runciman, as everyone knows, was recently President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (1926-27), and is gradually taking over the superintendence of his father's shipping interests. Father & father-in-law Sir Walter Runciman, no longer a seaman but an ardent yachtsman, has recently completed an autobiograpical work of much gusto and sap, entitled appropriately Before the Mast-and After...
...Sir Walter's grandson, Walter Leslie Runciman, 27, is no seaman but has married a daughter (Rosamond) of famed Cambridge rowing coach R. C. Lehmann. Everyone knows that swart Rosamond Lehmann has written a best selling novel-Dusty Answer...
Jocularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
...Minister Sir Samuel Hoare submitted to the House of Commons, last week, estimates calling for an air service expenditure next year equivalent to $77,000,000. The expected U. S. Congressional appropriation for the same purpose is $20,100,000. Sir Samuel startled many, last week, by announcing that a modified form of helicopter developed by the British Air Service has been successfully flown across country for 35 miles. Hitherto this species of aircraft, designed to rise and descend vertically, has been deemed impractical. The British contraption, called an "autogyro," possesses revolving wings...
...situation was one calling for a British statement to clear the air. This British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain provided, by issuing a White Book covering the treaty negotiations. In his introduction Sir Austen penned an amazing paragraph: "I could recall the sincerity with which the Ministers [of Queen Victoria] declared that our occupation [of Egypt] was only temporary and would be withdrawn at the earliest possible moment. But circumstances proved too strong for us. The moment of withdrawal never came and the events of the intervening 45 years have shown that neither of us could escape from a situation...