Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Dec. 20) in behalf of her husband, Oswald Mosely, who is seeking election to the Commons as a Laborite. Since both Oswald Mosely and his wife Lady Cynthia are regarded as dilettante Laborites, the jeers of the press were loud last week when Mr. Mosely's father, Sir Oswald Mosely, a peppery Conservative, attacked his son's candidacy as follows...
Next day Oswald Mosely retorted upon his father: "I was removed from the care of Sir Oswald when five years of age by an order of court and placed in the care of my mother, who was legally separated from him. Since that date my father has known nothing of my life and has seldom seen me. So far as I am aware he never contributed to my education or upbringing except in the form of the alimony he was compelled...
...None the less the organizing committee of the Liberal Party found itself so nearly bankrupt last week, that it voted 19 to 14 to accept funds from the ?1,000,000 (84-860,000) private fund controlled by Mr. Lloyd George. The Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg, commented: "Lloyd George is using money which he obtained by selling titles while in power, to buy the Liberal Party, so that he can sell its support to the Laborites...
...point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli-Curci." (TIME, Nov. 15). Declared Walter Damrosch: "If I continue broadcasting one orchestra...
...Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Indian mystic: "Homing from Europe, I passed last week through Athens. I did not visit the hill-crowning Parthenon. I remained at the villa of a German friend, eating candy...