Word: baronets
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...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...
...read a paid advertisement last week in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. But more was involved than a change of name. The Hon. Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, second daughter of the 18th Baron Sempill (who is also a baronet), had always been a mannish sort of a girl. A brilliant student who loved to flex her muscles in such masculine pastimes as hunting, shooting and fishing, she deplored the necessity of making a formal debut in London clad in feminine frills. Later on, after getting her M.D., she became the popular local doctor in the Scottish village of Alford...
Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...