Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words rollick. The little Scot prances and taps them out with his cane as he sings. Two plump, white knees twinkle below his kilt, and the Puckish smile of Sir Harry Lauder becomes as irresistible as the merry light in his grey eyes. Soon one more audience has succumbed to Scottish magic and is lilting the chorus joyously...
...speak, sir, for one hour on any day and at any hour you may select," Mr. Aylesworth exclaimed angrily...
...father, the late Sir Jocelyn Gore-Booth, first had good reason to know his daughter's metal in 1900. She, aged at that time 32, roused his Irish tenants to rebel against him, and made use of the the clutches of his guardianship and flee to Paris...
...Soviet government has been vexed ever since Great Britain's Home Secretary Sir Joynson-Hicks raided their London quarters (TIME, May 23). How to retaliate, how to make harsh gestures has been their aim. Recently they reconfirmed a concession that William Averell Harriman had wheedled from them for mining manganese (TiME, June 20). The British had been, supposedly, using their astute offices to thwart that concession. Giving it to Mr. Harriman, the Soviets intended as a slap at Great Britain...
...self-propulsion in art, as opposed to slavish dogmatism in conception and execution. For such reasons, then, art lovers regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase for $3,000,000 of the famed Benson collection, which, better than any other private collection extant, traces the history and spirit of early painting in Italy. Robert H. Benson is head of a potent, English banking house which bears his name...