Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") and Baron George Wrangel ("Billy Benedick") of Hearst's American and Journal, respectively. The Baron, 30, is a nephew of famed "White Russian" General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel. Dapper, bubbling "Cholly Knickerbocker" owns the copyright to his nom de plume, a valuable asset. His breezy column is famed for "plugging" favorites. Philadelphia...
...affairs of Credit-Anstalt, Great Austrian bank that closed in 1931, the Government arranged with the bank's creditors that henceforth Credit-Anstalt's president 1) must reside permanently in Vienna; 2 ) devote himself exclusively to the bank's business. Immediately the bank's president, Baron Louis Rothschild, head of the Vienna branch of his family, resigned...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...
...were: the Old Testament, being a Hebrew Book, is to be forbidden in German Sunday Schools. German Christians will substitute for it 100% German mythology-Wotan for Moses, Siegfried for Saul. Saints of the new religion will be such War heroes as that potent air fighter, the late Captain Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...been accepted as historical Zweig pronounces completely untrustworthy. Whatever her last words may have been, they were not, says Zweig, an apology for stepping on her executioner's toes. ("An anecdote too good to be true!") Documents in her case, he says, have been further confounded by one Baron Feuillet...