Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough...
...vocabularies?as the men who fought in Viet Nam. They went into it with the same illusions: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Horace told the boys in the public schools. John Wayne played the part of Horace in America. But finally, after Passchendaele in 1917, Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell saw the thing honestly. He looked out at the mud-soaked fields, burst into tears and muttered: "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that...
Gold and diamonds are hardly Oppenheimer's only lines of business. Though Oppenheimer inherited many of his mining interests from his German-born father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who immigrated to South Africa in 1902, his complex and interlocking activities today include investments in uranium, chemicals, real estate, manufacturing, banking and insurance...
...York City Ballet's Tchaikovsky gala, a ten-day tribute to the Russian composer that also honored the company's legendary George Balanchine, 77. Then London's Royal Ballet held sway at Lincoln Center for three weeks, offering several works by Balanchine's contemporary Sir Frederick Ashton...
...kind of Catholic. The girls are blunter. "When I die," says one beautiful young aristocrat, "my great uncle Cardinal de Wesseldorf and my great-great aunt the Carmelite Abbess de Wesseldorf, who had an affair with Napoleon before she entered, will say to the recording angel: 'My dear sir, you can't seriously send a Wesseldorf to hell,' and into heaven I shall go." To Nanda she observes, "You're a nicely washed and combed and baptised and confirmed little heathen, but you're a heathen all the same...