Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtain goes up on her regal bed chamber, horns sound exuberantly and woodwinds whisper racy innuendoes. The fun begins. A youth, Octavian, has spent the night with the Marschallin. Trapped there in the early morning, he hastily dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing...
...look at that youthful and dreamy-faced Scotsman Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow and Baron Hope, few people would suppose that during the War he commanded a Death-spitting armored car corps, that he is now 47 and a director of the Bank of Scotland or that Whitehall would be saying last week "there goes the next Viceroy of India...
...other picture, "The Million Dollar Ransom" was written by Damon Runyon for those who like their underworld straight. A benevolent beer-baron gives his life for his daughter and a millionaire kid. The moustached heavies are as sinister as you could ask and if you have no violent objection to Andy Devine's whining, and if you can endure underworld and Damon slang you will find the picture passable but unsafe...
...Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging in the streets...
When their Lordships rose, the sedition-squelcher had passed second reading after lurid revelations by Baron Allen of Hurtwood, a close friend of Scot MacDonald. "A plot has been discovered to seize the British Broadcasting House and make a coup d'état like that attempted in Vienna last July," began Lord Allen. He ended by admitting that the plotters "went no further than to think of preparation of plans...