Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then there are the stars. Jack Pearl, forsaking der Baron Munchausen, appears as Rubbish, the foreign-born Hollywood director whose fame it seems is based on a movie he once made about a boy and a girl and a dike. Rubbish, we discover in the first scene, is filming the Battle of Lexington and, always a stickler for accuracy, the scene is filmed in Lexington, Mass. There live such citizens as Buddy Ebsen--you guessed it, he's the Yokel Boy--Lois January, Judy Canova and other individuals who by the middle of the first act have all wandered...
...goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers are ostracized. Delicate machinery, especially in munitions plants, has been mysteriously damaged, and there have been unexplained delays in railroad schedules and slowdowns in factories. As a result, Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath recently went to Berlin to report to Adolf Hitler on the trouble he was having with stubborn, noncooperative Czechs...
...sacred Japanese Emperor leads the parade of personalities in the newest Almanac de Gunther, as the author discusses his divinity, ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses...
Clara Driscoll, 58, is the restless, magnetic daughter of a pioneer Texas land baron who left an estate now valued at $10,000,000. She is president of one Corpus Christi bank, largest stockholder of another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which...
...rations, an exhausted population. They signed with Germany a treaty as punishing as the Treaty of Versailles, lost a quarter of their manufactures. Said Lenin, "I would give up Petrograd for a breathing spell of 20 days." They fought the armies of Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, the troops of sadistic Baron Ungern von Sternberg near Mongolia. Astonishing as was their victory to the outside world, in view of the forces against them, it was more astonishing to themselves-for as students of Marx they counted on revolution coming in the industrialized countries of the West...