Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anonymous, memorable caricature of the first Baron Rothschild strutting like a Semitic pigeon, done in France...
Helen Wills Moody is still an able tennis player as she demonstrated last fortnight when she paired with Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm to win the mixed doubles in the Pacific Southwest championship tournament from Mrs. John Van Ryn and Donald Budge. But "a stupid mechanical difficulty with a joint called the sacroiliac" persists and, as she recognizes by writing her autobiography, her tennis career is over. Today her career is on other courts: she paints (mostly still life), designs sport clothes and Lastex underwear, has lately taken a screen test, entertains in her duplex studio apartment...
...favorite won the men's championship as advertised, although there were moments at Forest Hills last week when it seemed that the last big match of the tennis season, between California's J. Donald Budge and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, might never take place. While Budge was pacing easily through the field without once losing a set or even being carried to deuce games, von Cramm needed four sets to beat Hal Surface and Donald McNeill, both unseasoned players, and Bitsy Grant, whom he disposed of in straight sets at Wimbledon this year, took...
...Gabin), a handsome thief, lives in a basement flophouse run by a receiver of stolen goods, Kostylev (Vladimir Sokoloff) and his wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly...
Died. Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, 74, founder of the modern Olympic Games; after an apoplectic stroke; in Geneva, Switzerland...