Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron Snell, a onetime ploughboy, stable groom and potman who later became a Fabian Socialist and is chairman of the British Ethical Union led the Labor Opposition's attack. "A complete mess has been made," he declared, "of one of the most honorable tasks ever entrusted to a Government...
Attacking as a Tory Jew, young Baron Melchett, son of the late great Imperial Chemical Industries tycoon, groaned: "If the Government goes back on the Balfour Declaration and Mandate, as now seems to be planned, it will be the blackest hour in the long history of Jewry. . . . The only Arab the Government pays attention to is the Arab with a rifle...
...really be the interzone matches between the U. S. and Germany. Soon as the draw was announced last week, experts alsc knew that the U. S. and Germany would split the first two matches-U. S. No. i Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned out just so and the one doubles match became pivotal. Paired as always with husky Gene Mako, Budge did not hit his stride until von Cramm & Henkel had won one set and run the second to 5-3. Then...
...German Davis Cup tennis team, headed by Baron Gottfried von Cramm, this year's runner-up at Wimbledon: the European Zone final matches against Czechoslovakia's team; in Berlin. Germany this week plays the U. S. for the right to meet Great Britain, Davis Cup defender, in the challenge round. C. Elroy Robinson, of San Francisco's Olympic Club: the half-mile run at the World Labor Athletic Carnival on Randalls Island, N. Y.; in 1 min. 49.6 sec., breaking Ben Eastman's accepted world's record...
...infirmary; the attack on the arsenal; the Afghans laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna to St. Petersburg. In the secret compartment of one candlestick the Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides...