Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sir James" he is sometimes called for his courtly manners. He is full of funny stories, at which he cackles broadly himself. Behind the affable exterior is a sharp business-like personality that achieves difficult objectives. What he knows or thinks about the War Department it is impossible to say, but until last week he probably knew and thought very little about...
Doubtless one or more of the doctors who saved the life of George V will eventually be honored-but not this time. The only doctor to receive a peerage last week is Sir Berkeley Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. A coincidence of the week was that three days before the honors list was published, Sir Berkeley achieved terrific notoriety and put his name in screaming headlines by lecturing on Medicine and War before the London Authors' club. On his word of honor, Sir...
Berkeley declared that, despite German denials, bombs containing the bacilli of bubonic plague were unquestionably dropped upon troops of the British Fifth Army in 1916. Asked what was done about the bacilli, Sir Berkeley said reminiscently, "We encouraged cats and owls." (Cats and owls catch rats, which carry fleas, which carry bubonic bacilli...
Concerts by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony have been dull this season. Conductor Willem Mengelberg seemed sleepy. The aging Walter Damrosch was uninspired. Then, because Sir Thomas Beecham was unable to come, because Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...
...came to fame, made public tribute to his wife. It was 14 years and a month after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...