Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan must have more babies!" the baron cried. "It is a deplorable fact that young women of today are practicing birth control in the interests of beauty. They claim children spoil their beauty. This philosophy is a tragic mistake. Japan must have more babies...
There were a few titters in the gallery. Some women frowned, others modestly bowed their heads, exhibiting still further their fetching necks. The baron plunged right into the subject of birth control until the Speaker of the House hastily cut him short, declared "This discussion has gone too deeply into details...
...baron's outburst was not embarrassing only to the women in the gallery. It made a mockery of Japan's efforts to convince the world that she must expand because she needs more land for her teeming population (468 per square mile in Japan proper...
Last week a small but select group of internationalists gathered at Adelaide for the fourth and last stop on the annual world tennis cruise. Competitively, the company was fast. Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, U. S. doubles champions, were ending a barnstorming tour of Australia that had been preceded by a barnstorming tour of Japan. Donald Budge and Gene Mako, All-England doubles champions, were winding up a two-month Australian series of exhibitions and competitions...
Coming out for the semi-finals of the Australian Singles last week, Donald Budge had thus far justified his compatriots' if not his hosts' faith in him. After two months of this & that, during which he had dropped four matches (two to Baron von Cramm and two to Australia's Jack Bromwich) and irritated Australian tennis fans by his lackadaisical performance, Champion Budge had demonstrated that, although he is no superhuman tennis machine, he is still the best amateur tennist in the world. At Adelaide he had reached the semi-finals without losing...