Word: barone
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...Weakling is a sterner story, and plainly a parable of humanity caught between competing ideologies. "To make hate," says Mauriac, "is comforting. It rests the mind and relaxes the nerves." And Paula Cernes, a middle-class girl married to a decayed baron, has been making hate for 13 years. She lives in a tangle of venom with her husband's family, and despises her son Guillaume, a backward child, because he is so much like his father. To spite them all, Paula sends the boy to take lessons from the local schoolteacher, an open Communist. The schoolteacher brings...
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...