Word: barons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy?Baron Umberto de Morypurgo and Mario Del Bono...
Died. Archibald Philip Primrose, Fifth Earl of Rosebery, 82, of Durdans, Epsom, England; at Durdans. His 17-year-old boasts were: he would marry an heiress, win the Derby, become Prime Minister of England. He accomplished all three: married Hannah, eldest daughter of late great Baron Meyer de Rothschild; won the Derby thrice; was Liberal Prime Minister...
...lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility of nobles and peasants, few would pay to attend. It is as a psychologist, as the creator of the shrewd Generalin, the love-loving Fraulein Bork, the prurient children, the smug Baron, the fearfully respectable Baroness, highly-principled Hans, class-bound Frau Grill, that Author Keyserling excites greatest admiration...
...under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean William Scarlett. Among famed Britishers were Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Dean William Ralph Inge, Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Randall Thomas Baron Davidson, onetime Archbishop of Canterbury. Among famed U. S. Churchmen who did not sign were such men as Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Bishop William Thomas Manning. The outstanding British absentee was Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...
...antipathy of the two old women is inspired in part by Frau Grill's beauty. The Baroness has others to guard: children and a husband. Lolo, a daughter, swims beyond her strength to be rescued and kissed by lovely Frau Grill. The Baron, informed of this kiss, pays a call of thanks for the rescue, gets snubbed. Hilmar, Lolo's fiance, attaches himself to Frau Grill. It is too much. The two old women make the family leave...