Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other "Ben" alarm clocks are all namesakes of the 13½-ton bell in the clock tower of Britain's Houses of Parliament. The big bell was named "Ben" after Sir Benjamin Hall, in 1856 London's Commissioner of Works. Of all clock bells in the Empire none are more storied, more beloved. Therefore last week it seemed a splendid idea to take a movietone of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin listening, in his garden to "Big Ben" clang noon over the housetops...
...solemn public duty of being whimsical weighs a little heavier each year on Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week the aging Baronet again consented to do his whimsiest. A good many people hoped it would be better than last year, when the creator of Peter Pan opened a fair in his native Scotland with a long story about how he had passed the evening with Mary Queen of Scots and would have brought her along to the fair, only she vanished...
...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
...afraid that you American citizens would know more than I about how the League of Nations affects the United States but it has had a tremendous influence on my own country, Canada," said Sir Herbert Ames, who was Treasurer of the League from 1919 to 1926 and, previous to that, a member of the Canadian parliament, yesterday, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter...
...Sir Herbert is a graduate of Amherst College and recently was given an honorary degree of L.L.D. by that institution. Before he became connected with the League, he was a member of the Canadian Parliament; and he is recognized as one of the first reformers of municipal government in Canada...