Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard that Mrs. Gann dined last month at the British Embassy, wrote and asked: "Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington? Did you for the honor and dignity of your country decline liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...
While U. S. automobile men were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...
...Last week Sir Douglas announced the personnel (27 men) of this expedition, which sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...
...Sir Josnua Reynolds weightily pronounced blue to be unsuitable as a prevailing color in paintings. Almost simultaneously Artist Thomas Gainsborough produced his famed Blue Boy, intentionally or not a complete confutation of haughty Artist Reynolds...