Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time-honored theme of the two people who bear an uncanny resemblance to each other and the comedy of errors resulting from the confusion is resurrected for Maurice Chevalier in "Folies Bergere." The amiable Frenchman plays the parts of Eugene Charlier of the "Folies" and Baron Cassini, a dashing financier "as well known on the Boulevard as on the Bourse." Since the actor is so good at impersonating the Baron in his act, he eventually comes around to impersonating the distinguished banker when that gentleman is unavoidably absent at a reception he was supposed to be giving various dignitaries...
...Received with high approval and respect a plea in behalf of Britons now in jail for debt from the 1st Baron Snell, an eminent Fabian Socialist whose parents were farm laborers and who relates in Who's Who that he has worked as a "groom, ferryman and potman...
...aristocratic relatives followed the sealed black coffin across Berlin's swank Kaiserwilhelm Cemetery. The grave had been dug next to the mausoleum of the family of a distant relative, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the ace of aces of Imperial Germany. Though there is generally no parson at such funerals, a Protestant pastor was permitted to officiate. Meanwhile all Berlin gaped at scarlet and black posters stuck up everywhere in which Adolf Hitler pointedly emphasized the obvious fact that he had refused to save from beheading Baroness von Falkenhayn and the other beauteous spy who was beheaded with her, aristocratic...
...York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland. He had to content himself with taking two of the boss spy's poor little stoogettes, chopping off their heads. . . . This barbarity seems to indicate that Hitler has become...
...Stoogette Baroness, according to leaks from Berlin's People's Court last week, flung out her arms toward Spy Sosnowski when she was sentenced to be beheaded, crying, "George, save me!" Other leaks revealed Baron Sosnowski as engaged in Polish counterespionage, credited him with having exposed 54 Nazi spies who have been caught in foreign countries. That the Baron had been exchanged or would soon be exchanged for some of these Nazi spies, few doubted. According to the Warsaw correspondent of London's Daily Express, Baron Sosnowski stepped off a wagon-lit in Warsaw last week...