Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Victoria's onetime page boy, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, who today is the Socialist Baron Ponsonby, thundered at a Quaker meeting in London last week demands for the arrest of British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper. Reason: Mr. Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the criminally insane...
...Manhattan because impostors have been invading the thriving advertising testimonial business of true nobility in the U. S., Castilian Baron Giorgio Suriani di Castelnuovo and French Count Joseph Monneret de Villard formed a Noble-men's Club of America. Said Baron Castelnuovo: "For those of the 700 or 800 persons in New York qualified to claim noble titles we shall provide a dignified medium for commercial contacts...
...might be the new Secretary for the Colonies, the newspapers of Lord Beaverbrook were vociferous that it should not be First Commissioner of Works William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 51, arch-Conservative son & heir of the third Baron Harlech and specialist in the British colonies, geography and Florentine art. Last week Stanley Baldwin, who immunizes his pious convictions against criticism by not looking at a news paper over the long British weekend, named Mr. Ormsby-Gore Secretary of State for the Colonies...
Died. Charles John Baron Darling of Langham, 86, witty dean of His Majesty's High Court of Justice; in Lymington, Hampshire. Upped to bench and knighthood in 1897 when his impudent antics in Parliament dismayed William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
Britain's Will H. Hays is a distinguished old peer named William George Tyrrell. Like his U. S. counterpart, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, onetime British Ambassador to France, has no governmental standing but, as salaried ($10,000) president of the Board of Film Censors, a creation of the British film industry, he takes public responsibility for that organization's acts. Actual work he leaves mostly to a professional Cato, one J. Brooke Wilkinson, who works on the principle that any footage controversial enough to ruffle the customary calm of a cinema audience should be deleted...