Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
...auction was ordered by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, tall, dark, muscular grandson of the first Baron Rothschild and heir, who will be 27 years old next autumn. His reason was not penury but a lack of interest in magnificence. A strong-minded, outspoken young man of modern tastes, he played cricket at Harrow and now golfs, but his major interest is biology. He lives with his wife in a small house in Cambridge, where he has no room for ponderous treasures. He has a small but choice collection of Cézannes, Picassos, Renoirs...
...them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family's pet biographer, with Victoria the Widow and her Son and The Romance of Windsor Castle to his credit...
...with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets!" Jay Gould put through his branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started...
...Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...