Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nasty bit of business: devious Bette, home from driving her purloined husband to suicide, and burning to get out of town, tries to wheedle the cash to do it with from her robber-baron uncle, wins a chuckle from him with the brazen admission: "Guess I'm kill or cure." When he refuses to give her the money, she tries to make the old man drink himself to death...
Britain's spry, horse-loving Baron Portsea was born 82 years ago on the little island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. All the members of his family live there now, with 50,000 other British subjects, under Nazi overlords. They have slim pickings: no salt, jam, sweets. The potato crop goes largely to France. Coffee is made from parsnips...
When Government-Spokesman Lord Snell charged Lord Portsea with "exaggerating" conditions on the Channel Islands, the Baron rose again. Said he, in his quavering voice, the Islands should never have been abandoned in the first place. "If we had held out," he cried, "the Scharnhorst and her friends could not have slunk up the Channel. . . . They say there is no hope. . . of food being sent. We can only send bombs. . . . If I could find a teller, I would divide now. Will any noble Lord tell with me against the Government...
Wisconsin-born Architect Wright went to Chicago as an apprentice draftsman in 1887, just when the first modern skyscrapers in the world were abuilding in that brawny city. While the rest of the U.S. was content with old-fashioned imitation Greek pillars and Victorian knickknacks, Chicago Architects William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan and John Root had thought out a new, austere type of building that was to dominate U.S. big-city architecture for half a century...
Sued for Divorce. Lady Decies, 70, the former Elizabeth Drexel; by 75-year-old John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, her third husband; in London. Grounds: desertion...