Word: baronets
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...days when the Black Prince shattered the Genoese cross-bowmen at Crecy, and Sir John Chandos was the model of knightly chivalry for all the young squires of England, to be a duke or a marquis, or even a baronet, meant something. When the sword of the sovereign touched a blood-stained shoulder, all the world knew that the favored one had accomplished a mighty deed of valor, or that the army of King Philip had lost another eagle. The golden spur implied bravery, and honorable achievement...
...jury. Our hero, Adrian Graye, medical student, who happened along in the fog at the psychological moment, nevertheless believed her innocent. So did John Wirlescombe, noted detective. All of which made things interesting when the missing Gemma turned up again seven years later as Lady Wargrave, widow of one baronet, mother of another. The verdict of murder still stood against her, in spite of looks, money, title. Mr. J. S. Fletcher turns out mystery stories at a dizzy rate, all of them ingenious, skillfully constructed, plausible. This one is no exception...
Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company...
...savior of Monte Carlo: Sir Basil Zaharoff, French citizen, British baronet, munitions salesman...
...cost of becoming a duke ($3,500)-or even a baronet...