Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received into their House the King's youngest son Prince George, technically a "commoner" until he took his seat last week. Loudly the Clerk read the new peer's letters patent from George V, creating Prince George "Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick...
...Harvard history has an introduction by President Conant, and includes articles on all aspects of Harvard life by such notables as Professor Morison, Dean Hanford, and William J. Bingham '16. Director of Athletics. Perhaps most interesting of the lot is a re-printed essay by the late Le Baron R. Briggs '75, entitled "Harvard and the Individual." This was first published in the Boston Transcript in 1903, but its subject is one that is as vital today as, when it first appeared. There is also an interesting article on "Habits, Customs, and Manners at Harvard," by William 1. Nichols...
...More to Brookish people's point is the fact that M. le Baron Fouquier has under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
Such a list, valuable for general guidance, is of course only the groundwork of the Wine Gotha in which each subtle characteristic of each vintage will be described. Thus M. le Baron will write in part about the Bordeaux of 1916: "Good, complete without defects; will take a long time to become delicate but should become so. Very interesting to keep in stock...
...Died. Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, 89, Paris banker, patron of art, science, sport and Jewry, last of the grandsons of old Mayer Amschel Rothschild who founded the great five-branched banking dynasty; of old age; in Boulogne-sur-Seine, near Paris...