Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood golf writer (it lasted a day), 2) a wealthy baron, 3) a doctor. Of her tendency to swallow overdoses of sleeping pills, she declared: "He [Valentino] always said I was too beautiful to live...
...Beautiful Angels. Three minutes later, a small, brisk motorcade drew up at the school's entrance. From the lead car, a snappy, red M.G., jumped two young men who identified themselves as Inspectors of Criminal Police, Royal Court Division. Another young man calling himself Chief of Protocol Baron Jacques Franck left the second car and asked to see the mother superior. "No preparations," he insisted. "Just call a governing council meeting, for the presentation to the King, then call an assembly of the students and serve a wine of honor." "What kind do you advise?" asked the agitated mother...
Barbara Mutton left Paris for Cologne, Germany to spend her 39th birthday visiting her old friend, aging (42) German tennis ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm. Could this be a romance? asked friends. Babs left them dangling. Rumors of an engagement with Von Cramm are "perfectly ridiculous," she said. "I have been married four times, and I don't feel young enough to become engaged again." But, she added with womanly logic, "this does not mean that I will not marry again...
More consistent, and the freshest thing in the film, is Keenan Wynn's performance as a cantankerous oil and cattle baron with an amazing capacity for hard liquor, who puts his fist reverently to his heart when .anyone utters the sacred name of Texas...
...period from 1932-35, Premier Inukaita Finance Minister, a War Office General, and Baron Dan all appeared, posthumously, to have lost the confidence of the public. As time went on, the rules of the game became better established, so that it was no longer necessary actually to hit the offending statesmen. By public acceptance, of the sort that makes such practices as the evil eye and sticking pins in dolls so effective, it became sufficient to pick out some representative of the opposition and fire a few shots in his direction...