Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could any man who has joined with Sir Harry Lauder in such a chorus shake off the spell sufficiently to speak ill of him ? Sir Harry's friends would doubtless deny the possiblility; but in Edinburgh last week at a meeting of the Town Council, Mr. Councilman Gilzean struck the table a blow with his doubled fist and shouted...
...Council has been debating whether to confer "The Freedom of the City" on Sir Harry, and had heard several councilmen wax unetuous over his morale work during the World War, not forgetting to add that "his only son lies buried in a hero's grave...
...Gilzean roundly said that Sir Harry Lauder has not only debased and vulgarized the songs of his country; but that "he portrays a type of Scotchman not found in the heavens above, on the earth beneath, or in waters under the earth." Waxing emphatic, Councilman Gilzean cried: "If that type of Scotchman ever went about Scotland in the flesh, we would pack him off to an asylum...
Since many people do find Sir Harry Lauder's performances wholly or in part distasteful, what are his obnoxious points? Partial list: 1) His habit of performing character sketches between his songs in which the "character" is supposed to be, for example, an idiot boy who constantly wipes his nose with gusto on a homespun sleeve; 2) Sir Harry's habit of "forcing" new songs written by himself (and for sale in the lobby) on an audience which gives vocal and unmistakable signs that it wants chiefly his "old favorites"; 3) the extreme conceit and cocksureness with which Sir Harry...
Disarmament. Anglo-U. S. friendship is a sturdy plant. Let us desist pulling it up to inspect the roots. England is as wholly committed to disarming as the U. S. Let nations simply understand and respect one another's practical requirements.?Sir Arthur Willert of the British Foreign Office, long U. S. correspondent cf the London Times...