Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
...manner of effort could infuse life into the lives, or still the resentment that Herbert could not have had a collaborator as worthy as Sir Arthur Sullivan...
Professor Doriot declared his incompetence to speak impartially of the Shearer case because he approached it with a tremendous admiration for Sir William Wiseman, who is an intimate friend of his, but his full statement follows...
...Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, will come to Harvard as Ingersoll Lecturer for 1929-30, it was announced at University Hall yesterday afternoon. The appointment will bring Toronto's President here next spring. Recipient of many degrees including an LL. D. from Yale, Princeton, Glasgow, and Dublin, a D.D. from Edinburgh, a D.C.L. from Oxford, and a D. Litt, from Manchester, he has also been given the honor of Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George...
...statement Sir Douglas expressed concern over continued competition in foreign companies; over unsettled conditions in the potentially great Chinese market; over the inaccessibility of Russia where the Soviet government holds $84,000,000 of Singer assets. Then Sir Douglas told of the counteractive efforts of his sales agencies in opening up new territory even in remote Belgian Congo; in introducing machines to 338,000 pupils in 12,000 European school classes. He announced growth of electrical machine sales which are now half of all sales and which he predicts will eventually be the only kind. Then he mentioned machines capable...