Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school. Neither Peers nor newshawks could restrain smoldering glances at the visitors' necks, chalk-white with rice powder. The genteel interplay of glances was abruptly interrupted by Imperialist Baron Ryoitsu Asada...
Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
Wright finished his work in 1920. He was in Los Angeles when the big quake hit Tokyo three years later. After ten days of anxious waiting, Wright learned by cable from his friend and client, Baron Okura, that the building had ridden out the quake unharmed while other modern buildings were shaking their masonry into the streets...
...great debt which Japan owes to Boston," Saito declared. "Many of the makers of modern Japan had their education at Harvard." He mentioned in particular Baron Kikkawa, who wrote of his education here, "Had I lived those years in Japan, I would have been surrounded by so many attendants that I should not have learned to depend upon myself so much . . . I recommend my children to cultivate the spirit of independence so to prepare themselves as to be able to stand in the world without the aid of others...
...Nashville, Tenn. Dudley Leigh Aman Baron Marley, deputy speaker of Britain's House of Lords, watched his first U. S. football game. His comment: "The game is considerably slower than our rugby because of the frequent little committee meetings in which the players indulge...