Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Governor General Earl Grey appointed Mr. Dessaulles to the Senate in 1907 the centenarian was 79 years old. Loud & long were the protests that he was "too" old." Even some of the Senators complained to Premier Sir Wilfred Laurier. But the wily French Canadian statesman smiled and said: "He will be here when most of you are gone." And, when Senator Dessaulles looks around the Senate at his slightly less hoary colleagues, he must admit that the prophecy has been fulfilled...
...gentleman was Sir Walter Runciman, father of onetime Cabinet Minister Walter Runciman...
Walter Hampden is 48. Born in Brooklyn, he attended Brooklyn's famed Polytechnic Preparatory School; then Harvard University; then studied abroad. He first appeared on the stage as "a walking gentleman" in Sir Frank R. Benson's company in 1901 at Brighton, England. In recent years he has been chiefly associated with classic roles; presenting one of the most widely known Hamlets in the U. S., and the most popular present-day revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, generally considered his best role. He has his own Manhattan theatre in which he presents revivals and occasional new plays...
...Edward K. Dunham Lectures for the Promotion of the Medical Sciences will be inaugurated this year by a lecture tonight at the Medical School by Sir Charles Scott Sherrington of Oxford, entitled "Observations on Stretch Reflexes." All those interested are invited...
Gainsborough will be among the artists whose work finds a place in the Law School collection. His portrait of Sir Thomas Plummer was purchased by the Law School two weeks before his "Blue Boy" brought a price of $200,000 at an English sale...