Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge has a higher reputation for impartiality than Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England, but last week he reported after 13 years on the Empire's highest bench: ''The only impartiality possible to the human mind is that which arises from an understanding of neither side of the case...
...Olympic Games were revived from the grave of ancient Greece by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896 to encourage international amity. They have been held eight times since, never without disorders ranging from disputed decisions to international scandals...
With Canadian bookstores and cinema houses plugging his royalties furiously last week, canny John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, prolonged the money-making suspense of his arrival as Governor General by postponing it to Nov. 2. The given reason for this delay was to allow time for William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal victor in Canada's general election (TIME, Oct. 21), to be sworn in as Premier before the distinguished author arrives to occupy viceregal Rideau Hall...
...Last Days of Pompeii (RKO). The connection between this picture and Baron Bulwer-Lytton's famed novel begins and ends with the title. It is a massive melodrama relating in epic terms the life history of an Augustan prizefighter, ancient in its settings but modern in its methods, and equipped with everything from the Crucifixion to a holdup...
...Baron Dan will lecture on the subject "Some Aspects of Japanese Painting," in the small lecture hall of Fogg Art Museum, at 11 o'clock Saturday morning...