Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This new book, on sale at the Co-operative Society, fills 2000 pages with selections from English literature ranging from Sir Patrick Spens to Ring Lardner and Stephen Leacock...
...Premiers, pleasurably aghast, viewed the mighty steel framework of these sister ships, each 730 feet long and to be equipped each with five 600-horsepower heavy oil engines, capable of driving the ships 4,000 miles without refueling at 60 miles an hour. Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare explained, pointing with a chubby handled cane, just where the 100 passengers to be carried by each ship will berth, asserted that they will be served six-course dinners, 50 at a time in the dining salon, will promenade upon two decks between which will ply electric elevators...
Bigwig House. One Captain Jefferson Cohn, rich turfman, owner of nationally famed racehorse Sir Galahad III which beat the internationally famed Epinard ("Spinach"), snapped up for ?75,000 ($364,950) last week the residence of the Dowager Baroness Michelham at 20 Arlington Street, an Augustan thoroughfare sacred until now to the mansions of peers (TIME, Nov. 22). Since the late Lord Michelham's art treasures (Gainsboroughs, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences) are likewise to be sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King...
...made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would not confess his name but was proved to have shot and killed from the desert A. G. Elliott, air mechanician for famed British flying ace Sir Alan ("England-to-Australia-and-Return") Cobham (TIME...
...Sir Robert Baden-Powell: "While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed. Said Lady Baden-Powell to newsgatherers: 'Sir Robert is just worn out. There is nothing organically wrong with...