Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen D. Voting (clapping Sir J. vigorously on the shoulder): "Jo, it's good...
Copies of the official report of H. R. H.'s tour by his private secretary. Sir Godfrey Thomas, were confidentially passed out to Cabinet Ministers, during the week, but not published. Seldom has a suppression seemed more inept...
...Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes, son-in-law of the late, great Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, ordered out all available troops and armored cars, but these forces could not do more than check the rioting in restricted areas, though they did prevent the killing of even a single occidental civilian...
...right eye is dead," said Sir Joseph Duveen, dolefully. "Dead," he intoned, "very dead...
Surely Leonardo da Vinci had never painted a "dead" eye. Leonardo studied artillery, muscle fibres, ladies' lips, everything that quivered with life, mechanical or protoplasmic. He was the inspired archetype of the small boy who wants to know how things work. Sir Joseph Duveen could not believe that the painted "dead" eye was by Leonardo, nor, for that matter, that any part of the canvas had been colored by that amazing Florentine...