Word: balincourt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Order of the Bath, Doctor of Laws, Oxford, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, etc., is one of the most prominent members of the world's unburied dead. Still alive at 86, he retired eight years ago, now lives in senile seclusion on his French estate at Balincourt. To pacifists the single-handed murderer of millions, to Reds a mummified museum-piece of capitalism, to fellow-tycoons a poor old rich boy, Zaharoff remains a juicy prey for some future historian. Much has been said and written about him during his long life, but most of the facts...
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