Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Edward of Vales as "Empire Salesman" has visited Argentina and has not visited Soviet Russia, the Mother Country's stand last week was somewhat grotesque. At once her No. i delegate, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, was furiously attacked in England by the Hearstian papers of Baron Beaverbrook, himself Canadian-born...
Above his own signature on the most prominent page of his London Sunday Express, Baron Beaverbrook clarioned that Mr. Baldwin has no intention of accepting "the fair offers made by the Dominions...
Bela Lugosi, son of Banker Baron Lugosi. was born in Lugos, Hungary, 49 years ago. He stands 6 ft. i in., has bulging blue eyes, was a famed actor in Budapest for ten years before the War. A sympathizer of Count Karolyi during the Revolution, he fled Hungary when the Royalists returned to power. In 1925 in Manhattan he learned the lines of a Spanish Apache in The Red Poppy, without knowing enough English to know what he was saying...
...fell over some chairs in the grandstand, noisily spilled a tray of orangeade. The crowd, largely composed of Parisian Germans and Parisian Frenchmen who wanted Germany to win because it might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, 8-6. This unexpected victory?one more in the record of a team that had astounded tennis critics by beating England in the European zone...
Typical of the "scoops" which Baron Beaverbrook likes to score in his lively London Daily Express was an interview last week with famed Irish Jockey Michael Beary, recent winner of the Irish Derby on Dastur...