Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barbed wire, said last week that he has accepted from prominent prisoners eleven challenges to rapier duels, six to sabre duels and one to a pistol duel "unto death." The pistol challenger is Prisoner Max von Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There's no grander feeling than beating your man in a fair fight. I shall fight them...
...protest against German antiSemitism, Henry Ludwig Mond, Baron Melchett, British chemical tycoon, half-Jewish member of the Church of England, embraced Judaism in a liberal London synagog...
Doubles champions at Wimbledon last week were: Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon; Elizabeth Ryan and Mme Rene Mathieu; Hilda Krahwinkel and Baron Gottfried Von Cramm...
...make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come...
Twenty-two years ago Composer Strauss wrote another opera whose plot depended upon disguise and mistaken identities. In Rosenkavalier, the most charming and successful of his works, a young Austrian nobleman dresses as a lady's maid, makes a monkey out of a lecherous old baron and after a series of richly comic episodes wins the girl whom the baron intended for himself. Arabella follows Der Rosenkavalier in many of its details. The impecunious old Count puts on a drinking act as blatant if not half so funny as old Baron Ochs's. A richly-scored waltz dominates...