Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal to revitalize the world's slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...
...chess players generally agreed that the proposed switch would have no appreciable effect on the game whatsoever. The Baron was talking through his coronet...
Spring preparation will be hampered this year by the fact that the Le Baron Briggs Cage has been taken over for calisthenics by servicemen and given an asphalt floor, but indoor work for pitchers and catchers will go on as usual...
...idea was not so dizzy as it seemed. The Scot was William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 50, Colonel the Baron Sempill, and also possessor of a title many Nova Scotians had not known existed: Baronet of Nova Scotia. An ancestor, one Sir William Forbes, served King James I in England's 17th-Century civil wars, had been rewarded with the baronetcy and 16,000 acres in "New Scotland." When "New Scotland" was ceded to the French in 1632, Sir William lost the land but kept the title...
...been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...