Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some amusing references about myself, which, by the way, I appreciate-candor has always been a characteristic of mind, as it is of your admirable little journal. But unfortunately, you made one mistake. (You probably will say, that is not many.) The mistake is, that my chief employed is Sir Thomas Lipton. I have a great admiration for Sir Thomas Lipton, He is a very good friend of mine, but he is not my employer and I have nothing to do with him. The client for whom I visit the United States every year is the Indian Tea Association...
...reception was Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd, first to fly over the North Pole, with his arm in a sling after his recent (TIME, April 25) airplane crash. Also was present Sir Charles Higham (TIME, April 18, May 2), British tea publicity man, who joined the official party as it filed out, had his picture taken with the Naval officers on the City Hall steps...
...must to all judges, the temptation to utter from the bench what pass for witticisms has come at last to the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider...
...Sir Henry Lnnn, M.A., M.P., publicist, philanthropist, editor, will conduct the services at Appleton Chapel this morning at 8:45 o'clock...
...Sir Henry Lunn, whose tour in this country is in the interest of Church Unity and International Friendship, has been one of the pioneers in the movement toward harmony among the churches...