Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Sir...
Objections to the radical step go back to the times of Sir Walter Raleigh and his introduction of smoking into England. It was never permitted in libraries, some of them to this day in England barring electric lights, confining research work to the hours of daylight...
Walter Sherman Gifford, President American Telephone & Telegraph Co., picked up a telephone receiver in the directors' room of his company, in Manhattan, heard a sharp feminine voice say, "Hello, London? Sir Evelyn." A sharper feminine voice replied, "London ready." Said he into his transmitter, "Good morning, Sir. This is Mr. Gifford in New York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been...
...over a new departure of Little Brown & Co. Shorter than a novel; longer than a short-story; cost, a dollar the volume, are the E. Phillips Oppenheim "pocket thrillers." The stories are not new. England has known them in her magazines or as "shilling shockers". The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe, Bart.; The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray; Madame and Her Twelve Virgins; The Channay Syndicate. Trash as good as Mr. Op- penheim's has its place in the world...
Ambrose McEvoy's reputation was almost as high in the U. S. as in England. In 1920, his exhibition at Sir Joseph Duveen's Manhattan galleries led to many commissions here, at $5,000 each, for his idealized representations of fashionable ladies. (He had painted Consuelo, onetime Duchess of Marlborough.) He was compared with Gainsborough. His "Portrait of my Mother" looks less like Gains- borough's lacy work, however, than Whistler's calm familiar model by the same name. Only, Madam McEvoy seems not so old as Madam Whistler. In fact one feels she would take...