Word: barone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have often done before, Austrian and Hungarian Monarchists met in Vienna for a conference, but for the first time in years were allowed to talk to the Press. Baron von Wiesner. who presided, was said to have declared: "The law passed by the former Socialist Government, banishing the Habsburgs from Austria, will be rescinded by the Cabinet within a month. The former Empress and Emperor Otto will return as soon as practicable...
...housed in a five-story Georgian building on fashionable East End Avenue, Miss Chapin's school has 45 teachers, 380 students aged 6 to 18. Though in 1932 she relinquished her position as headmistress to her partner and housemate since 1911, Mary Cecilia Fairfax, sister of the 12th Baron Fairfax, Miss Chapin's ideas and personality have continued to dominate the school almost as strongly as ever. Even her passion for historic dates is still gratified. Beginning at 2,000 B.C., Chapin girls march down the centuries by memorizing some five dates each week. Almost the only outward...
...with the world. He had Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
...official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...
...There were enough, however, to make the series, after next summer's Gold Cup races, the most important U. S. motorboat contest of the year. Parisian Publisher Jean Dupuy is a director of the sporting Cote d'Azur Club on the Riviera. His teammates were Baron Rothschild and Marquis Gonzalo de la Gandara, whose father-in-law, Marquis d'lvanrey, builds Soriano motors. Spain and England sent two men each, Hungary and Sweden one. Italy, where motorboat racing is encouraged by the Government, did not send a team for the outboard competition but sent its three best...