Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Baron Beaverbrook has apparently banished the very word mortality from his private lexicon. "I am an old man," he said recently, sensing a fell presence outside the door, "and I should be ready...
Clayton Koelb, the Baron, and Laura Esterman, his wife, had deceptively complex roles, and neither succeeded in exploring thoroughly the intricacies of his part...
...Koelb did hint at the embivalence with which Stringberg viewed the Baron's position. There was no question in the author's mind that the Baron had been wronged; his wife was a vile creature who represented all that Strindberg feared in women. At the same time, the Baron's association with his wife had despoiled him as well, leading him into unforgivable transgressions. Koelb was both remorseful and wronged, though perhaps a shade more guilty and compassionate towards his wife than Strindberg would have wished...
Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
When I came to the U.S., I was appalled to find that most people thought the baron was a fiction. I therefore wrote a book, called The Real Munchhausen, which was published by Devin Adair...