Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There has never been, a Hadrian VII-except in "Baron Corvo's" brilliant, perverse novel about an English Pope who chose that title...
...Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems...
Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland's aging (78) President, left Helsinki for points west and south. Officially, he was traveling for his health (he is asthmatic). Unofficially, the veteran soldier and inveterate foe of Soviet Russia was said to be avoiding his country's "War Responsibles" trial...
Originator of the jogo do bicho was one Baron Drummond, a bluff, bawdy, Brazilian-born Englishman, to whom Emperor Dom Pedro II gave a title and the concession to the Rio zoo. To popularize the zoo, the Baron encouraged visitors to guess the identity of an animal concealed behind a curtain, paid off to winners. In time the guessing game became a tremendously popular numbers game, with different numbers for 25 Brazilian beasts...
West Pubnico was founded in 1651 by a blue-blooded Frenchman named Sieur Philippe d'Entremont. Because he was the Baron de Pombcoup, his settlement was known first as Pombcoup, then (by the Indians) as Pobomcook, finally (by latter-day Canadians) as Pubnico. Today 675 Pubniconians are d'Entremonts. The others are Leblancs, d'Eons, Sureties and Amiraults, who have married into the family. The only four "outsiders" in the village: Fish Processor Charles Munro, who moved in from nearby Shelburne five years ago, his wife and two children...