Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hsiao-Li, the wife of a former Harvard lecturer, yesterday became the first Chinese to be given the rank of Lady in the English peerage. Her husband, Michael Lindsay, automatically received the rank of Baron of Birker upon the death of his 72 year old father...
...French baron wanted urgently to see Beethoven, but a friend assured him it was impossible: "Ever since France became an Empire, Beethoven has had such a hatred for the French . . ."* The baron made his visit to Beethoven's apartment in Vienna, nonetheless, and "a very ugly and evidently ill-humored man opened the door...
...grand piano covered in dust . . . Beneath it ... an unemptied chamber pot . . . The chairs . . . were covered with plates full of the remains of the previous evening's meal." It was an equal shock to realize that the ugly man who let him in was Beethoven himself. Concluded the baron: "I had seen the bear in his cage...
...Robber Baron. In Los Angeles, two service stations complained that they had been held up by a masked man who arrived in a chauffeur-driven limousine, completed each job with a command to his driver: "Home, James...
...round out the bill, the manager has included three shorts. One of these is a fifteen minute keyhole view of Blue Baron and his orchestra. Close your eyes, and it's just like turning on the radio. Open your eyes...