Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another year, he would have found himself in a very tragic political conflict with Jefferson, and he would have inevitably seen those principles inculcated in him by birth and by breeding swept boldly aside to make way for certain more popular democratic doctrines. George Washington was a landed Virginia baron whose life was guided not by monarchic nor republican, but by aristocratic ideals. It was the preservation of those ideals and the country which he loved that made him the father of his country...
...analysis the author has never lost sight of the fact that his subject was a man and not a political theory. There are long passages faithfully describing his boyhood which offer valuable insight into the character of the man. In a fine chapter on Washington as a Virginia baron Mr. Fay accomplishes the dual purpose of constructing a Washington of flesh and blood and of portraying the haleyon feudal civilization that was Virginia's. Believing that the key to many of the President's actions can be found in the English colonel's career, the author dwells at unusual length...
...Court, as the appeal proceeded, stalked Lord Kylsant, the appellant, one of the most impressive peers in Britain, a man more than six and a half feet tall, broad in proportion and fault- lessly garbed in cutaway and silk hat. Several times the Baron arrived at Court and departed from it in his twinkling limousine. But when the time came for Mr. Justice Avory to deliver his verdict on the appeal Lord Kylsant stalked to a cell, bent his massive head to enter and seated his great frame on the small cell chair to wait...
...Court the Baron's son-in-law, the Earl of Coventry, fidgeted and fumed while Justice Avory delivered his 55-minute verdict in the iciest tradition of the British bar. For fully 40 minutes it was impossible to tell whether he was granting the appeal or denying it. But at last Mr. Justice Avory came to his passionless point: "In the opinion of this Court there is ample evidence . . . that this prospectus was false in material, particularly if it conveyed a false impression...
...Wormwood Scrubs Prison, a soot-blackened pile in western London over-looking railway yards and a bleak, 200-acre common, Baron Kylsant and Sir John Simon pondered their next move. A final appeal was possible to Lord Kylsant's peers, the House of Lords, highest British court. On the other hand, by accepting his sentence of one year in jail and serving it meritoriously, Lord Kylsant could win a reduction of two months for "good behavior," might be a free man again as early as next September...