Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sir Hubert's new friend was Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, ex-convict, ex-explorer, only living man who ever claimed that he led a party to the North Pole on foot...
Last week, though much of his old ebullience was gone, old "Doc" Cook still held high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 (K. 425) (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 7 sides). Latest and richest Mozart vintage, brilliantly bottled...
...blockade with: "Rehly, you British, it isn't manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured on Naziism in Scotland; some, that it is a renegade member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist blackshirts. But most Britons refer to Zeesen's voice as Lord...
...house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young Henry Adams wrote to his brother: "No man is fit to take hold now who is not cool as death...