Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...culprits' real crime was that they had transgressed the unwritten code of honor & respectability of the Civil Service. Mr. Gregory, with a salary of ?1,200 per year had mysteriously transgressed to the extent of making speculative moves in the aggregate amount of ?1,000,000. Sir Miles Lampson, the Minister to China, had barely dabbled. Intermediate between these twain were three Foreign Office officials who were disciplined, last week, according to the gravity of their indiscretions...
...Commenting emotionally on the above terse report, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain cried to the House of Commons: "I am speaking as an English gentleman upon what I think is an outrage on humanity. . . . I believe this [film] account of the execution to be fully apocryphal [i. e. fictitious or spurious]. I feel that it is an outrage upon a noble woman's memory to turn to purposes of commercial profit so heroic a story...
...Sir Austen's plea against Dawn was shortly described as "a lullaby to please the Germans" and roundly flayed by peppery Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan who served as Vice-Chairman of the Lord Bryce Commission which, during the War, investigated and exaggerated "German atrocities." Flinging the defunct Commission's hat once more into the ring, General Morgan rehearsed the "judicial murder" of Edith Cavell and seemed to think it could not receive too much film publicity...
...emergence of Canton as a separate Chinese Government was signalized, last week, when the British Governor of Hongkong, Sir Cecil Clementi, received a visit from Dictator Li Chai-sum of Canton and accorded to him every honor. Sir Cecil then prepared to return the Dictator's visit by announcing that he would go himself in full & formal array to Canton...
...thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English youth, to the great...