Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hushed splendor of a Manhattan museum (the Frick) that was once a coal baron's Fifth Avenue palace, some of the most serious U.S. poets and critics gathered. They had come to hear, and honor, the acknowledged first poet of their day. T. S. Eliot, making one of his rare U.S. appearances, delivered a new lecture on his old enemy, John Milton...
...apprentice, one of the few proletarians who has ever become an intelligent Communist leader. Marx falsely accused Weitling of being a literary crook and hounded him to the U.S. Another target was Ferdinand Lassalle, brilliant founder of the German Social Democratic Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could not make the charge stick...
Divorced. Anthony Drexel Duke, 28, millionaire (Lucky Strike) great-grandson of Tobacco Baron Washington Duke; by Alice Rutgers Duke, 26, pretty, freckled Johnson & Johnson (Band-Aid) kin; after seven years, two children; in Reno...
...shrewd Tin Baron Patiño did not let diplomatic frippery interfere with business. When the world depression of the 1930s set off a tin crisis, he helped form a cartel with British and Dutch producers. Together, they held prices firm...
...first clang of the fire alarm, the Duke of Windsor flung out of his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers and up two flights to Baron Egmont van Zuylen van Nuyvelt's apartment. The Baron & friends, in a hot game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...