Word: baronets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland neighbors oohed and aahed over his good fortune, Sir Adrian sold his tools and made ready to claim his inheritance. "I have no highfalutin ideas about getting into society," the new baronet told reporters who met him in Southampton last month. "I am poor as Job's cat, and I'm satisfied to go on living that way . . . but this is an honor-kinda historic...
Haggis & Bees. In the village of Newton Stewart, Sir Adrian's tenants welcomed him with a bang-up banquet featuring bagpipes and a steaming haggis. An obliging cousin lent him a Dunbar tartan. Then the new baronet went out to have a look for himself at Mochrum Park, the ancestral seat of the Dunbar family...
...Trollope, became an intellectual comedian whose life was one long perpetration of jokes against his haughty self. His Ordeal of Richard Feverel sardonically recounted the misadventures of a proper Victorian young gentleman brought up in almost complete ignorance of sex. The hero of The Egoist was a young baronet of such absurd self-love that he delayed his marriage (and lost the girl) worrying that she might remarry if he died first...
...glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame spread. An elderly English liberal baronet followed her to a Donegal cottage, thrust a diamond pendant into her hand as he unsuccessfully proposed. Said Maud: "I thank you for the gracious thought, and your kindness shall not be wasted. This jewel will save this family from eviction...
...Books a Day. Even without his vast knowledge, Acton might have become a famous man. One of his grandfathers was a Roman Catholic baronet who won the favor of the Queen of Naples and became her Prime Minister. His maternal grandfather was a duke of the Holy Roman Empire who won the favor of Talleyrand and became a peer of France. To all this, Acton's stepfather added another note: he was Lord Granville, one of the most influential of Britain's Whigs...