Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calhoun describes Feloney's court as "one of the best in the Commonwealth. In a system that is not standardized, where fiefdoms and mini-kingdoms abound because of life-time appointments, Judge Feloney has proved a benevolent baron...
...Omnium. Along the way, their lives intertwine with-among a hundred or so others-a headstrong early feminist, Alice Vavasor, and her rascally cousin George; a young radical M.P. from Ireland, Phineas Finn; and a mistreated wife, Lady Laura Kennedy, who flees from her cruel husband, a rich Scottish baron...
...Died. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 67, German tennis star; in an automobile accident; outside Cairo. Graceful Von Cramm won 82 of 102 Davis Cup matches during his 23-year career; his five-set loss to American Don Budge in 1937 still ranks as one of the greatest matches in tennis history. Von Cramm retired from competitive tennis in the mid-'50s, when he became an exporter in Hamburg. He married Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton in 1955; they were divorced...
...person is willing to chop down trees, it's a great way to see what the country is like, and to meet people you wouldn't come in contact with in Cambridge," Sherry L. Baron '77-3, a student who spent six months working in the coal mining regions of Tennessee, said yesterday...
...world and, like some aging belligerent artiste at a cocktail party, to eventually become a public bore. Not that the script--running from saccharin to soporific to just plain stupid--gives the hefty Brando any leg up. Not does the film's only female presence, a cattle baron's educated, sensitive, bored and basically horny daughter who sums up her view of the prairie with a quote from Samue Johnson: "A blade of grass is a blade of grass; show me a human being...