Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans. As the sleeping car of Yvon Delbos rolled into Berlin, it was unprecedented and highly significant that German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath should be on the platform to greet the French Foreign Minister. Baron von Neurath called out in everyone's hearing an expression of his pleasure that the Paris Exposition this year brought 100,000 German visitors to France, then climbed aboard the train for a conference which smiling M. Delbos said afterward had unfortunately been all too short. Such goings on and such words would have seemed incredible a few months or weeks...
...none-too-beauteous Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, now 21. World-wide rumors that Lady Anne is about to become either Queen or a Princess of the Belgians were met by official denials carried on British Press Association wires and at Brussels the King's Secretary, Baron Capelle called them "childish fairy tales...
...many a foreign bigwig. At night the festivities culminated in a gigantic concert in the city's largest auditorium, with two symphony orchestras and a choir of 500 voices. There were 8,000 people in the audience. In places of honor sat President Svin-hufvud, Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim and the visiting Prime Ministers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden...
...rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About the music of Stravinsky he is unenthusiastic, finds extreme Modernist Schonberg "unsympathetic...
...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...