Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate of Eton and Oxford, a good London clubman (Bucks and Beefsteak), a wartime Grenadier Guardsman, an unsuccessful Tory candidate for the House of Commons, the son of a former colonial governor of Kenya and a peer of the realm, young (32) John Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, might well be expected to defend with heart and hand the well-rooted principle of British conservatism. Instead, as the peppery and literate editor of the National and English Review (which he inherited along with his title from his father), Tory Lord Altrincham has aimed the barbs...
...real-business in their hats." All are said to have "vision" and "an ability to size up men." All but one were "personally trained or taught by their fathers, when they first entered the world of real money." Most of them freely spread their wealth; none is a robber baron...
...Csepel Island industrial works, famed center of revolt, grimy threadbare workers were responding to the reiterated Communist propaganda that they were agents of the Horthy counterrevolution by addressing each other ironically as Baron, Count and Lord Bishop. It was said that those workers who had remained loyal to the People's Democracy-all six of them-had formed the Kadar government. There were grim jokes about children not getting their milk unless they surrendered their arms...
...Seattle. Teamster Boss Dave Beck's home town, the contrast in newspaper coverage was even more pronounced. The Seattle Times (circ. 208,224), though long chary of offending Baron Beck, had assigned Pulitzer Prizewinning Reporter Ed Guthman to ferret out the story as soon as it learned of the Oregonian expose last year. Last week it red-bannered the Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play...
Until he became First Baron Conesford of Chelsea, Henry George Strauss, 64, was a longtime (20 years) Tory M.P. whose dry, legalistic speeches often had the unhappy effect of emptying the House of Commons of all but its most conscientious members. But last week his lordship was the center of a controversy that gave him the biggest audience of his career. In effect he had raised a delicate question: Who is responsible for corrupting the English language...