Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sir Joseph Beecham while a boy helped cure sick farm animals, found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce...
...Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...Presumably the butler's name is not that of the Admirable Crichton, discreet, able butler who (in Sir James's socialistic play of that title) takes command of an aristocratic family on a deserted island, after shipwreck. The play was first produced in 1903, and cinematographed in 1919 under the title of Male and Female...
Married. Ethel Pryke, "Lady Mayoress of London," daughter of Lord Mayor Sir William Pryke, to one Cyril Turner, lawyer; in St. Paul's Cathedral, by Dean Inge. Owing to the illness of her father, the bride could not ride in his ceremonial coach, which must only be used when the Lord Mayor is passenger. She traveled, however, in an excellent black coach, embossed with the city's coat of arms. She was accompanied by aldermen, coachmen, constables and the City Remembrancer, who were dressed in wigs and full ancient panoply. Married. Robert Wales Emmons III, employe...
...half billion dollar concern. The principal components are the Brunner Mond Co. (heavy chem-icals), British Dyestuffs Corp., Nobel industries (explosives), and United Alkali Co., each of which already predominates over its branch of the trade. Earnings of the combine will approximate $20,000,000 yearly, according to Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, chairman. One of his associates, as director, is Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquis of Reading, onetime Viceroy and Governor General of India...