Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many phases of the subject are represented, from the milk posset receipt of Sir Walter Raleigh to information for making malt liquor at home, so that any persons might have it "strong, fine, and aged, at their own Discretion" from a book "In Praise of Drunkenness" to such anti-alcoholic tracts as the following extract, concerned with naval morals...
...Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada, often "cut" in the dreadful U. S. bootleg way, and distributed through unlicensed channels...
Code radio flashes from London to the plunging, speeding Enterprise told David of Windsor more than any correspondent knew about George V's condition. In England censorship of the official medical bulletins by Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks grew so drastic that prominent folk even tried to pry the truth out of Sir William's son Lancelot, previously a pallid nonentity. One day after chatting with his tall, correct, frock-coated father, Lancelot Joynson-Hicks said positively: "There is no doubt that the King is on the mend...
...first upset in the post-election bull market came last week over a matter of $3. Sir Joseph Flavelle, head of the Canadian Marconi Co., a Canadian radio stock listed on the New York Curb, announced that $3 was too high a price for Canadian Marconi shares. Inasmuch as Canadian Marconi was being quoted at $27, Sir Joseph's tow Opinion of -the stock shocked Marconi speculators. Dropping perpendicularly at a speed that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that...
...City of New York is carrying airplanes, two portable houses, scientific baggage, and a season's supply of provender. Commander Byrd will set up his base on the Bay of Wales, across the Antarctic Continent from Deception Island (among the South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird...