Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Miss Hall's publishers-the old and distinguished firm of Jonathan Cape, Ltd.-appealed against suppression of The Well of Loneliness, before the Attorney General of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Inskip. National interest focused on the appeal because Miss Hall's book had received the indorsement of a petition to the Attorney General signed by John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, John Middleton Murray, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett...
After hearing the appeal, Sir Thomas Inskip ruled, in effect, that British police shall pounce upon, confiscate and destroy all unsold copies of The Well of Loneliness. Said Sir Thomas, hotly, to reporters: "I consider this the most subtle, demoralizing, corrosive and corruptive book ever written...
...British airplane from India, zooming above Kabul, the British Minister Sir Francis Henry Humphrys signaled: "All is well. Do not land on any account. Situation is improving." The "situation" seemed to be that rebel brigands were still in the vicinity of Kabul, though repeatedly repulsed...
Presently the British Minister, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, arrived at Nanking and signed with Dr. Wang a treaty granting de jure recognition of the Nationalist regime by His Majesty's Government, and according to Great Britain, "most favored nation" status under the new Chinese Tariff Law, effective...
...Elected. Sir William Llewelyn, English artist; to be President of the Royal Academy, narrowly defeating famed Portraitist Sir William Orpen...