Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week where the Duke tennissed and laid a cornerstone, and the Duchess reviewed Girl Guides. Together they attended the theatre amid an ovation. Thence the Renown steamed to Panama, where they were saluted by the Albion, yacht of Earl Fitzwilliam and the Four Winds, yacht of British Vice Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, retired, who wanders eccentrically about the globe with a captain and crew who are Chinese...
...great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again." Pause. "However, since you appear to wish to lose ?100, I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven...
...Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder...
Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some...
...extraordinarily far-sighted and generous policy toward China on the part of Great Britain has been announced by Sir Austen Chamberlain. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and may be regarded as a decided step forward in the attitude of the Western world toward the East England has gone more than half-way in its effort to reach a settlement with China, considering not the inconvenience of the moment, but relations with China for the next hundred years." All the points stated by China have been accepted, extra-territoriality, the tariff and the matter of the concessions. Such a degree of conciliatory...