Word: barone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With all the physical prestige of a man six and a half feet tall, with all the au- thority of a peer who has just relinquished the great office of Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin told the leaders of the British Conservative Party in London last week that "the prestige of the white man in India has been lost and probably cannot be recovered...
...feel pleasantly dreamy at the mere mention of An der Schonen Blauen Donau, to lovers of the bustled, candlelit atmosphere of Die Fledermaus and the sprightly, stagily Hungarian Gypsy Baron, there was sadness in the news last week that the Johann-Strauss-Theater in Vienna had gone bankrupt. Not because of any association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz...
Died. Jesse Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham, 81, founder of the $25,000,000 drug store chain, Boot's Cash Chemists, which with 770 shops in England controls Boot's Pure Drug Co. and four subsidiary companies; of paralysis; in St. Helier, island of Jersey...
...with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen...
...Geneva keen, smiling Ivy Litvinov is a member in her own right of whatever Russian Delegation may be headed by Max. Her first appearance was in the days when Great Britain was represented by that congenital Tory tea-drinker Baron Cushendun. Stumbling with his tea into Mme Litvinov in the League lobby he once boomed...