Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...
...Belgians to do anything so sensational as visit Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat-of-the-Old-School Baron Constantin von Neurath in Berlin to sleek, smart Belgian Ambassador Viscount Jacques Davignon...
...William Richard Morris, ist Baron of Nuffield, who last year brought tears of joy to the eyes of Oxonians with a gift of $10,000,000 for a medical centre and $500,000 for the Bodleian Library, had previously given $700,000 for an infirmary. Last week he tossed Oxford University another $6,500,000. He gave $1,000,000 for more medical research, $500,000 to buy a site for a new school of physical chemistry, $5,000,000 for a new college for social studies. Thereupon, the onetime bicycle mechanic, now the Henry Ford of Great Britain...
Aboard the Normandie docking in Manhattan, aboard again 22 hours later when she departed was John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Fifth Baron Decies...
...Self Portrait of the Artist Slightly Squiffed by Baron Vivant Dominique Denon, Napoleon's chief looter and director of the Louvre...