Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maiden speech of 66-year-old Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," who has been a peer for 20 years without ever venturing to take his seat. Friends of the porcine, thick-lipped Viscount claim that he is thin-skinned and shy. Two months ago peppery Major General Baron Mottistone of Mottistone proposed that Hearstian Rothermere should be "expelled" from the House of Lords unless he "apologized" for his newsorgans' "distortion of facts...
Swedish police arrested last week that courtier of King Gustaf V who has been nearest to the font of Swedish chivalry. The exalted prisoner, Baron Nils Stiernstedt, proved touchy. When his captors tried to question him he had a magnificent nervous breakdown. Swedish papers were so scared of the story that Swedes had to dig most details out of Danish papers...
Apparently the Baron, Chancellor of the Royal Masters Orders, had made a good thing out of orders turned back to the Swedish Crown by meticulous relatives after the demise of Swedish knights. Causing these golden gauds to be melted up, the Chancellor, according to Danish reporters, kept the gold himself, converted it into cash, and bought stock in a highly speculative firm engaged in the manufacture of Swedish skin food, lipsticks and eyebrow pencils...
...Baron D. Kikuchi, of Kyoto, Japan, formerly Minister of Education, and president of the Tokyo Imperial University, now president of the Kyoto Imperial University, will deliver an address on Japanese National Development in the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock...
Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, Governor and Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, Master Gunner of St. James's Park, returning to England with his wife and his daughter from a tour of Australia, landed one icy day at Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship...