Word: misters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said bossy Julie to Marshall Field III, president of the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children, who sponsored the evacuees: "Mister, kneel kindly. I've a kiss for you and the fancy lights of the New World...
...doing in the U. S. Said Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information Harold Nicolson: Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull...
...Mister, you sure started something when you wrote that article in TIME, March 18, titled "Innocent in Wall Street," in which you mentioned the ad in the Wall Street Journal in which I advertised for a partner with $15,000 to help me dig a well and me getting in a mess with...
...because they did not arrive in San Francisco until 1851). He went to Harvard Law School, practiced in Boston, taught at Keio University between 1889 and 1892 (where he helped introduce baseball to Japan), and from 1901 to 1929 was Dean of the Northwestern University Law School. Always called Mister (not Professor), Dean Wigmore did not retire when he became Dean Emeritus, but moved his office to the first floor of the Law School, near the front entrance, where he would be easier to get at. Every Wednesday and Saturday for at least 30 years he has spent at home...
...really very luck getting a free baton and a free guide book," he concludes. "If an urchin says to you, 'Where did you get that stick, Mister?' reply, 'I, sir, am a Harvard man.' Then duck...