Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Sir...
...Until last February Sir Alfred Mond was, politically, a Liberal leader in association with Mr. Lloyd George and the Earl of Asquith and Oxford (TiME, Feb. 1). Now he considers himself a Conservative, like his relative-in-law, the Marquis of Reading, whose heir (Gerald Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh) married Sir Alfred Mond's daughter (Eva Violet). Together with the Rothschilds, Montagus, and Sassoons, theirs are the most prominent of many potent Jewish families in England...
...years later, less in the role of dutiful son, he goes to "the racecourse on Long Island" (Jamaica) to see the world-challenging steed, Eclipse, race the Southern horse, Sir Henry, over no mere matter of furlongs but three four-mile heats, held half an hour apart. The crowd dwarfs even a modern world series throng, being estimated at 100,000. Shrewd hindsight permits the author to mark the event as foreshadowing a struggle that was to follow it in 40 years. It is the South against the North. Betting and feeling run high. Behind young Quincy sits the illustrious...
These salty and robust classics are in the translations of Sir Roger 1'Estrange, John Stevens and others...
...dear Sir...