Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last two places on the British Walker Cup team...
...nearby castle of Enkendaal lives wealthy Landowner Baron van Leyden, whose stepdaughter, Julie, Alison wed to tutor in England...
...Baron interests himself in Alison and his friend Ballater, pedrsuades them to leave the fortress on parole, live in a cottage on the baronial estate. In the ancient van Leyden Library Alison can pursue his studies undisturbed. But beautiful Julie, now married to a German, von Norwitz, off fighting in the War, soon disturbs his contemplations. She is restive and Alison soon becomes so. There is more philosophy in her glowing eyes then in all this books, more in her sudden kiss than he supposed all life could contain...
...most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...