Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons: He is not happy with new ideas and realizes them slowly and a little painfully. . . . He has the hauteur of conscious weakness, and works timidly within the limits of departmental sanction. His contribution to public life is that of a conscientious and painstaking rectitude, but he belongs to the past, and has no vision of the future...
...Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs: "When he first appeared upon the stage, as plain Mr. Hicks ?the Joynson is an accretion from his marriage?he seems to have had painful tendencies of a Radical order and sat in the Highbury Parliament which met at the Highbury Athenaeum in North London as Radical member for Peterborough. . . . He came first into prominence as a crusading Evangelical...
...Sir Thomas Beecham, musician, pill-maker: "Before my forthcoming departure to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 15) I last week in Belfast reiterated my scornful opinion of the English. Asked for a panacea, I said...
Toward the end Sir Lancelot says, ". . . though Galahad is unusual, I doubt if he will ever become typical," which might be as aptly said of many a strapping young idealist now studying sociology at Columbia or Stanford instead of chivalry at Camelot...
...remarkable that Guinevere stayed skeptical, with reports of the lusty brat's [Galahad's] activities constantly reaching the court. She dismissed Lancelot, who thereupon went mad, and she never bade him return until her life was at stake before the perfectly accurate charges of jealous and mighty Sir Meliagrance. The interim was Elaine's one happy season. When Lancelot was found in the forest and brought, bound, into young Galahad's new bloodhound kennels, she nursed the grizzled giant back to sanity. Galahad, who grew to rival his father at arms, kept him at her castle...