Word: barone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the lovely Floria Tosca asked was a safe-conduct pass for herself and her lover to leave the country. Her wiles and her entreaties had failed. At last she had promised her body. Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police in Rome, smiled. He gave an order that the girl's lover be saved by a mock execution, then signed a safe-conduct pass...
...when the Baron rose from his desk to take the girl in his arms her eyes were menacing. Suddenly she clawed a sharp knife from her clothes, struck it deep into the Baron's breast. He crumpled, begging for mercy, but the girl did not heed. Calmly she washed her hands, tidied her hair, plucked the pass from the Baron's stiffening fingers, swept offstage...
...performance of Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
...other time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...
Richard Le Baron Goodwin, Nathan Clarence Greer, Goodwin Warner Harding, Norman John Hayes, James Sloane Higgins, Peter Iselin, Daniel Thomas Kelly, Jr., Joseph Michael Leahey, Walter Jay Lear, Alfred Dix Leeson, Charles Henry McCroskey, John Donald MacKinnon, Jr., William Lindsay Mosby, Kenneth Matthew Tate Munzert, Thompson Decker Orr, John Adams Paine, Jr., Cortlandt Parker, Jr., Parker de Sales Pitts, David Elliott Place, Frank Harrison Poole...