Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shots. Consequently, in tennis, luck counts for comparatively little and the better player almost always wins. Before the All-England tennis championships started at Wimbledon last fortnight, experts knew who the best players were: redhaired, lanky Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. and Germany's handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm...
...Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, a diplomat of the old regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration...
...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...
Japan's present system of peerage, of which the new Premier is a top-ranking member, numbers about 1,000, was established in 1884 as a subtle method of breaking the power of the feudal Samurai. Titles are ki (prince), ko (marquis), haku (count), shi (viscount), dan (baron). All are hereditary titles, all except the first can be conferred on commoners. There is also the equivalent of British knighthood in the Ikai or Kurai. Only in classical poetry or Gilbert & Sullivan is the Emperor called Mikado, is generally called Tenshi (Son of Heaven) or Tenno (Heavenly King...
...hard-court singles championship at Paris. In the final he beat Bunny Austin, England's Davis Cup No. i, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. Heretofore 22-year-old Henkel has been regarded as nothing much more than a handicap for Germany's No. 1 singles player, Baron Gottfried von Cramm. His performance last week suggested that, just as Australia turned out much weaker than expected, Germany may turn out much stronger...