Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody in Berlin and no member of the Cabinet had seen Hitler for days. Hopping by plane about Southern Germany he had been haranguing his people, listening to their hoarse cheers, sharpening his intuition. About all the preparation Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath had been able to make was to persuade the Ministry of Interior with great difficulty, to release from jail and house arrest several hundred Protestant pastors locked up for denouncing Naziism as "pagan," Sir John Simon being the son of a clergyman...
...basis of Adolf Hitler's strategy is surprise. He let Sir John and Captain Eden go to bed in the Hotel Adlon, sleep, arise and breakfast under the impression that they would lay the basis for negotiation in a quiet morning at the German Foreign Office with Baron von Neurath and without Adolf Hitler. Abruptly at the last minute the morning-coated English and German diplomats were summoned to the Realm-chancellery where they found The Leader lounging in a loose brown jacket behind his great, document-piled desk...
...flabby-fingered Hitler handshake was cordial. Sir John, Baron von Neurath and their diplomatic suites occupied chairs facing the Great Orator in a semicircle. Then from Adolf Hitler burst such a torrent of compelling gutturals and animal magnetism as only he can turn...
...Manfred von Richthofen was downed after bagging 80 Allied planes. His downy-lipped "baby brother" Bolko, the present Baron von Richthofen, now gallantly squires the Dowager Baroness. A doctor of philosophy, he is an honorary member of the new Richthofen Escadrille, does...
...years Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company had a villain without peer. He seemed kindly enough backstage but when he strode before an audience as Baron Scarpia, Chief of the Roman Police in Puccini's Tosca, he became so sinister and malevolent that he set an all-time standard for that melodramatic role. Antonio Scotti was stabbed by 17 different Toscas from the time the opera had its U. S. premiere in 1901 until he sang his farewell (TIME. Jan. 30, 1933). Last week when the Metropolitan revived Tosca for the first time in three years, there...