Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circus clown named Funny. Most of the others in the circus, he soon learns, are unhappy too. Funny (Dennis King) falls in love with a charming, childlike little bareback rider whose depraved nobleman of a "father" is on the point of marrying her off to a rich, lecherous baron. When he finds he cannot stop the marriage, Funny, with considerable fanfare, poisons himself and the girl...
...best poetry, Abraham Lincoln's speeches, and Mark Twain's best book (Huckleberry Finn). They also proved that history's greatest democracy was not going the way of democratic Athens, for the war's dead were scarcely settled in their graves when the Robber Barons took over their country. They were able to do so because practically every American intensely admired them, and hoped to be a Robber Baron himself. The result of their enterprise was to speed up the development of the continent. But in one of the most beautiful lands on earth the Barons...
Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
...racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...
Married. James Ramsay Ullman, 38, venturer and adventurer who wrote the current best-selling White Tower, produced four Broadway flops in one season (1936-37), then quit because "I like to eat"; and Elaine Heineberg Baron Luria, 27; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...