Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
...With the granting of their plea, the University authorities set about their task of raising $30,000. The cost of running the lottery ran up as high as $24,500, but it netted $29,000, just 1,000 dollars short of the original goal. The hall is named after Sir Matthew Holworthy, who gave more money to Harvard University during the 17th century than any other...
...Sir Frederick Mills, Chairman of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co. Ltd., issued a final dire statement: "Nineteen bodies have been recovered. The gas has been pumped out and rescue work is going on; but I can see no hope that the 32 men still trapped underground remain alive...
...British note of protest and warning to Russia (TIME, March 7) he concluded: "It is not Britain who should have protested to us about anti-British propaganda, but we who should have protested to Britain about her anti-Soviet propaganda. The note complained that the Soviet press had caricatured Sir Austen Chamberlain as applauding the hanging of Lithuanian Communists. I say that he not only applauded, but also greased the ropes...
...Married. Sir Walter Peacock, 55, member of the Prince of Wales' staff; to Mrs. Irene Cynthia Humphreys; in London. The prince attended the wedding, but was unrecognized at first, and the bride drove about the streets for ten minutes, awaiting his arrival. The choir started the procession mistaking Lady Ian Malcolm for the bride. The prince, much amused, signed the register as first witness, insisted that the newlyweds leave the church ahead...