Word: baden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modifies its acreage restrictions, deplored "unsocial" conditions in some bars, with an eye on such sleepless adversaries as Mrs. Boole's W.C.T.U., pointed proudly to their good housekeeping in cleaning up dubious dispensaries (resulting in the suspension of 120 licenses in seven States), elected tanned, towering, outdoorsy Carl Baden-hausen president, went home to their breweries...
Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany...
Prince Johannes zu Loewenstein is not a roulette player himself. Scion of an ancient noble German line, he is a 37-year-old Doctor of Philosophy who lives in Vienna, a brother of Hubertus Loewenstein, prominent German Catholic. Passing through Baden two years ago, tall, solemn Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There...
...means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...
...visits to Rhodesian and South African jamborees, Chief Boy Scout Robert Stephenson Smyth, Baron Baden-Powell, 80, declared: "It is either going to kill or cure me. I don't mind which it is, so long as I can carry through my work...