Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both prayer books were bought from Baron Maurice de Rothschild's collection in 1954 by James J. Rorimer, then curator of The Cloisters, a Met outpost. For Medievalist Rorimer the two books represented "an extraordinary opportunity for supplementing The Cloister's collections." Rorimer, now the Met's director, used income from a $10 million gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to purchase the books, waited until this year's Christmas season to announce the acquisition...
...palace crisis that has openly rocked The Netherlands and not too privately estranged Queen Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard, moved closer to resolution. Juliana accepted with overflowing gratitude "for services rendered" the resignations of her private secretary, Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, and his buddy, the Queen's chamberlain, Johann van Maasdick. Significance of the quittings: the baron's family first introduced the Queen to Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25), whose metaphysical grip on Juliana led to the crisis...
...hair-raising. Callas entered Baron Scarpia's den looking like the Queen of the Night in her black velvet and ermine gown and glittering tiara. Her lip curled shrewishly at Scarpia's overtures, but she staggered when she heard her lover's tortured screams. She wound up her big show-stopping aria, Vissi d'Arte, on her knees just in time to receive the ovation that greeted it. Meanwhile, Mitropoulos, silhouetted against the stage lights, was kneading, soothing, irritating, roiling his orchestra, bouncing around in the climaxes like a marionette on a string. With a start...
...Main-bocher originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock, the bullying baron, of junk who tries to buy the U.S. Senate, Paul Douglas was again, as he was for 1,642 performances on Broadway, superbly irascible and boorish...
...Roorback: A defamatory falsehood published for political effect-Webster's. The word comes from a report published in Whig papers on the eve of the 1844 election, attributed to a fictitious Baron Roorback. The report, an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Democratic Candidate (and slaveholder) James K. Polk, charged that a gang of slaves branded with the initials J.K.P. had been seen on their way to Southern markets...