Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last. Gay and handsome, he had crossed the channel to hunt with Chicago Harvester Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes they walked safely out of "The Heronry's" front door...
...paid for a set of Lincoln and Jefferson to give to "a politician." Last April, Plug-uglies Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went on about his business of being New York's most notorious gangster and beer baron. Last week the Wexler career came to an abrupt and inglorious end in a dingy Federal courtroom in Manhattan...
...following are patrons and patronesses for the dance: Baron and Baroness Kurt von Tippelskirch, Professor and Mrs. John A. Walz, Professor and Mrs. William G. Howard, Professor and Mrs. Frederick W. C. Lieder, Professor Hugh Leichentritt, Professor and Mrs. Taylor Starck, Professor and Mrs. Walter Silz, Dr. and Mrs. Roe-Merrill S. Heffner, Dr. Fred O. Nolte, Mrs. S. K. Hawkes...
...night of Repeal, now many months heralded by brassy clarion sounds and the low moans of boot-leggers, is the finish of a flaming column in the scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and rum runner; the stomachal conditions of the ailing members of every University in the country will be improved; revenue will come to the government, and wine to the table; and finally, the course of a few generations may see the people of the nation taught to appreciate fine liquors...
...result, the condition of Newfoundland is "desperate." both politically and financially, according to the Royal 'Commission headed by that uncompromising, vinegar-tongued Scot, Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, ist Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...