Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham, 34, monarchist editor of the National and English Review, whose 1957 analysis of "The Monarchy Today" thoughtfully explored the Crown's position in a world where "republics are the rule," but earned him inglorious publicity for his choice of phrases about the Queen's speaking style ("a pain in the neck") and manner ("that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team"); and Marian Campbell, 27, editor of a youth magazine published by Altrincham; in Tormarton, England...
Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned...
...first husband was Lawyer William V. O'Connor, now California deputy attorney general. Her second, who divorced her last June on charges of adultery, was Earl Beatty, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
...Times Herald, enraged by the way Washington's transit company board chairman. Financier Louis E. Wolfson, was running the buses and streetcars, said so in three editorials. Sample: "His tactics, indeed the whole Wolfson operation of a once-sound company, have been a hark-back to the robber baron days of the last century." Financier Wolfson promptly sued for $30 million. The Post was unabashed: "We shall continue to exercise our full right to criticize...
...father was Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed moneyman, who virtually ran France. At 19, Germaine was married off to Sweden's Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador...