Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sir, you can't touch that!" shouted Robert Lampoon, noted virtnoso, to a CRIME reporter whom he observed looking quizzically at his picolo. "It's my own," he added, fondling it, "and that's why I didn't dare play at the Union tonight. I'm taking awfully good care of it till St. Patrick's Day. Guess why? Why, it's the Lampoon dinner, celebrates six months peace with the police. Can I sell you a ticket...
...prince in his own right in Africa He knows things which would make the imperialists of every country blush with shame. Descendant of Said Kafu and a long line of distinguished Negro merchants and sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more...
After eight years of preparation, 21 days of trial, 590,000 words of testimony and 14 hours of deliberation by the jury, the Manhattan trial of Sir Joseph Duveen came, last week, to naught. Grey as the dawn in which they appeared, the jurymen reported a deadlock. Justice William Harman Black of the New York Supreme Court thanked and discharged them...
...Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City had been unable to prove that her heirloom painting was a Leonardo, or that Sir Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...
...jury deadlocked at nine votes for Mrs. Hahn, three for Sir Joseph...