Word: baronets
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...changed every evening during the war, when no one wore such a garment, are obdurate vestiges of dandyism. But the shocking London of the '708 was too much for the genteel and moral Irish Protestant, who had worked as an accountant and claimed to be kin to a baronet. He heard the Biblical and warlike voice of Marx. Its despotic sound, its subversiveness, its talk of the continuous war of classes, its protest against poverty, the passion of its economics, lastingly moved Shaw, for he was poor, came from an oppressed nation, had lost his religious faith...
...association with Laurence Olivier) is noteworthy only as a vehicle-and a transatlantic conveyance-for Dame Edith Evans. Probably the most distinguished of English actresses has come over from London in it, to waste her own time, though not entirely her audience's, on Broadway. Playing an aged baronet's rudderless, unquiet middle-aged wife-a woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense of style and capacity for the grand style, her brilliant gifts...
Divorced. By Robert Anthony Eden, 53, Britain's NO. 2 Tory, successor presumptive to No. 1 Winston Churchill foreign Secretary in two cabinets (1935-38; 1940-45): Beatrice Helen Eden, 44, baronet's daughter now living in Manhattan; after 27 years of marriage (three of seperation), two sons; in London Grounds: desertion...
...late Gertrude Stein was talking (in 1939) about a dapper British baronet who also happened to be an artist and close friend of hers: Sir Francis Cyril Rose. Coming from the shrewd old observer who had "discovered" Picasso, Stein's praise was a big boost for Rose's last London exhibition ten years ago; but not even Stein could then make Rose's work smell sweet to British critics. Last week things were different: Rose's new show at London's plush little Gimpel Fils Gallery had blossomed into a triumph...
Charles James Fox, great friend of American independence, appeared at Ascot, they say, in a grey topper, and started a fashion that slowly took hold. In 1791 there was a celebrated running of the Oatlands stakes at Ascot. Baronet, owned by the Prince of Wales (later George the Fourth), won the race after London had gone almost out of its collective mind over the event. An estimated ?500,000 changed hands in bets, and the Prince picked up ?17,000 in wagers...