Word: baronets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was very wise of her, as events showed. She had her reward later, in another field, just after dawn. There, and at an interview by the tomb of Sir Robert Maulgrave?the Satanic baronet who had drunk from a skull and ridden a zebra about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published...
London cables last week left U. S. drys jubilant and wets glum. They reported Sir Broderick Cecil Hartwell, "rum-running baronet," as listed in the Official Gazette for bankruptcy...
...Broderick organized a company to buy liquor and ship it-not to U. S. shores but as close thereto as the twelve-mile limit allowed. The idea was not, so the Baronet asserted, to act as a bootlegger. Only it so happened that a craft lying off shore laden with Scotch and other forbidden liquors would soon find buyers swarming towards it. Once his merchandise was sold-for cash-Sir Broderick would cease to be interested in its further history. Perhaps it entered the U. S. Perhaps not. He really could not say. But he sent out circulars inviting...
...early days of the rum fleet were however concluded by the American coast patrol, which seized several thousand cases of contraband liquor belonging to Sir Broderick's company. The Baronet admitted that this disastrous coup exhausted his funds. He gamely stuck at it, however, and announced that he would next try to land cargoes through the "Bahamas International Trading Co." if he could finance the new organization. But the British press frowned upon the venture. The influential London Daily Mail warned prospective investors against it. The apparent result was Sir Broderick's recent bankruptcy...
Further Developments: 1) Oswald Mosely, wealthy Socialist baronet and M. P., husband of Lady Cynthia, daughter of Lord Curzon, 2) "Emperor" Cooke, incendiary Coal-Laborite, took little part in the debate, but caused a sensation by remaining seated while the national anthem was played...