Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps Sir Rabindranath Tagore's "disgust with 'the prejudiced and despicable American view of things and people Asiatic' " (TIME, May 6, p. 48) may be explained by the following fact...
...Sirs: Apropos of the recent "visit to our shores" of Mr. Reeves-Smith, British connoisseur and tester of wines, and his information of the method by which he does the testing (TIME, April 22): It is told of the old days in England that one of the three officers in every community-the other two were the high bailiff and 'he low bailiff-was the ale tester. Posterity has cast a blot on the 'scutcheon of that worthy by corrupting his honored name into "ale taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation...
...This is Ascension Day, sir. The boys of St. Clement Danes choir school are being shown the boundaries of the parish...
...would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George...
...with profit. Plays of John Galsworthy and Frederick Lonsdale have been considered for presentation in a renovated downtown theatre. A $1,000 prize awaits the first St. Louisan who writes a producible play. The Theatre Society was conceived by an Englishman named Peter Greig, Cambridge graduate, onetime actor with Sir Herbert Tree, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Marie Tempest. To direct the project, he resigned lately as assistant to Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of the Society's chief backers...