Word: baroneted
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That strange force called Christianity, despite all its marble monuments and pursed lips, demonstrates again 85 again that it is still a living thing. This week, U.S. Christians heard renewed proof of it - from a Scottish Presbyterian baronet and a Roman Catholic priest...
...William Osler, a Canadian, was made a baronet in 1911 after leaving Johns Hopkins to become regius professor of medicine at Oxford...
Married. Rose Bingham Fiske, 32, slender, pretty widow of Pilot Officer William Mead Lindley Fiske, champion Olympic bobsledder and first American to die flying for the R.A.F. in World War II (1940); and Lieut. Colonel John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, 32, elder son of Sir Digby Lawson, second baronet; he for the first time, she (once the Countess of Warwick) for the third; in London...
...Robert Peel, 21, sixth baronet; ordinary seaman, Royal Navy. A descendant of the famed British Prime Minister who founded the London police force, he was drowned when Japanese planes dive-bombed and sank his ship in the Indian Ocean two years ago. His mother, comedienne Beatrice Lillie, learned backstage of her only son's death, went on with her show. She inherited his fortune...
Susan spends her time being mad about English traditions. She leaps like a mating 'salmon when she hears the word "baronet." Then she bumps into one named Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), complete with a family ghost. Sir John is eager to squire her Down Roman roads where Caesar's legions marched, And follow Chaucer's steps to Canterbury...