Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern, like her stock stopper to a conversation she thinks...
...beginning of the exhibit is a quotation from General Oberst Baron Werner von Fritsch, former chief of the German General Staff: "the Nation with the best photographic interpretation will win the next war." The following posters trace the three phases of photographic interpretation in action, and include copies of reconnaissance reports on Japanese island fortifications, and pictures of enemy, installations from the Navy's operational files...
Killed in Action. David, Lord Davies, 29, reputedly richest man in the British Army, Major in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, coal, banking, and railroad heir of the late, liberal 1st Baron of Llandinam; in the European theater...
...Lord Shuttleworth, 26, captain Royal Artillery, killed in action last year. The third Baron Shuttleworth, he was also the third of his family to die in battle. His father was killed in World War I; his brother was killed in the Battle of Britain...
...Lord Clive, 38, a direct descendant of Clive of India. One of the tallest men in the House of Lords, he sat there as 17th Baron Darcy de Knayth, a peerage created by Edward III. A fighter pilot in the R.A.F., he was killed last year...