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Word: sirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words are nothing but a stiff, stilted and ungracious way of saying "in English" what Sir Esme had warmly and frankly said "in American." The Foreign Secretary actually confirmed the Ambassador's assertion that "a further effort will be made," but he did it so ungraciously that he seemed to repudiate him. Naturally the British opposition Press headlined "Sir Esme Repudiated!" and the Labor Daily Herald seized the chance to moan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme & Sir Austen | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...hopes of naval limitation Sir Esme Howard may have raised can now be decently buried." London's political dopesters thought that the "Sir Esme scandal" will hurt the Conservatives badly in Britain's coming election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme & Sir Austen | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...fast, sir!" said Long Legs, "I will rise and let you through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Long Legs v. Pudgy Paunch | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Pardon me, sir!" mumbled Pudgy Paunch, as Long Legs rose and stepped into the aisle, "Pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Long Legs v. Pudgy Paunch | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...difficult to shoot a hole in the accuracy of the statement made by Mr. H. B. ('Yes, Mr. Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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