Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholars from the Leyton County High School stood in a respectful row last week to receive the official inspection of His Royal Highness Edward of Wales. As H. R. H. passed down the line, one Geoffrey Gill, 15, piped: "Please, Sir, mayn't I have your autograph...
Despite the deploring vote of Their Lordships, Sir Esmond Ovey left London last week for Moscow as His Majesty's ambassador to the Reds...
Second largest offer ever made for a horse-$600,000 by the Aga Khan in 1926 to Sir James Rutherford, Scotch distiller, for Solarie, Ascot cup winner...
Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
...willing to discuss the question: Would prohibition be a good thing, economically and morally, for the country if it were well enforced? That, after all, is the real question. Why not consider it in an honest and scientific spirit? A good beginning may be made by reading Sir Josiah Stamp's address before the British Society for the Study of Inebriety on October...