Word: barone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small importance.) But he itched to be a proper politician. He tried three times, a boisterous, hard-hitting, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament who rebelled against Conservative Party tactics and advice. One month after World War II began he married redhaired, green-eyed Socialite Pamela Digby, daughter of the nth Baron Digby. He was then a subaltern in the exclusive the Queen's Own Hussars. In 1940 he finally got his seat in Parliament in an unopposed election. His father, whom he adores, sponsored him before the House, beamed like a sunflower shortly thereafter when his son's first...
...advertised in Vogue, and thus the Nast judgments set patterns far beyond Vogue's own cirulation of a few hundred thousand. To his own women-readers Nast brought the excitement of modern art, from Seurat to Modigliani and to Covarrubias, the breath-taking photography of Steichen, Beaton, Lohse, Baron Hoyningen-Huene; and the vivid drama of fashion-drawings by Carl Ericsson, Sigrid Grafstrom, Count René Bouët-Willaumez and many others, which in turn influenced all U.S. advertising art. Vogue became a feminine bible of taste. Even its cheesecake was cool and cultured: cheesecake prettily iced. Technician...
Because he was no disciple of decency for conformity's sake alone, Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick, and youngest (39) of the four living sons of King George V and Queen Mary, got on with his countrymen. They accepted him as royalty; they relished him as a rake; when in World War II he forsook private gaiety for public chores, they liked...
...five: William Ruys, director general of the Rotterdamsche-Lloyd Line; Alexander Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oije, onetime aide-de-camp to Queen Wilhelmina; Eog Count Limbrug Stirum; Christoffel Bennekers, onetime police inspector of Rotterdam; a Rotterdam attorney named Waalde...
...Baron Gottfried von Cramm, graceful tennist, onetime jail bird (on a morals charge) has returned to Berlin from the eastern front and resumed his tennis...