Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Sir...
...London, Mayor Walker slipped in and out of his hotel without fuss, cocked his white straw "skimmer" at an acute angle and exhibited a burst of U. S. energy. He went through a mock arrest, telling Sir John Knill, the acting Lord Mayor, "It's the sword makes me own up, my Lord." He dashed to luncheons, teas, handshakings; tried out the Lord Mayor's chair, a chipper urchin among greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates...
...Have you heard, sir, have you heard?" he gasped impatiently, "an impudent Chinaman had the temerity to land in an airplane on my parade ground this morning. The scoundrel! What are we coming to, sir? And, when I informed him that he had no business to fly over the British army, that it was contrary to international law, that I should keep his jolly old flying ricksha, and that I was really awfully cross and perturbed and should report him to the authorities?after I had thus unburdened myself, sir, the rascally fellow insulted...
...ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints of cerebro-spinal meningitis...
...This concert marks the end of the tenth season of Mr. Goldman's concerts," further stated Mr. Roulstone. Audience and bandmen cheered when reminded that Sir Thomas Lipton had called Mr. Goldman's band "the greatest in the world." Graciously Mr. Gold man uttered thanks, stated that in ten years of concerts he had never failed to be present, mentioned the names of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Gug genheim, Mr. & Mrs. Murry Guggenheim, whose gifts support Goldman concerts, presented to Bandsman Del Staigers ("the world's greatest cornetist") a golden cornet...