Word: barons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean Le Baron Russell Briggs '75 underwent an abdominal operation yesterday morning in the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital, it was learned yesterday from the doctors in charge of his case...
...knew it, and much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the City's plate of gold, went not only H. R. H. but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than...
Highly agitated was His Britannic Majesty's lean and dramatically tall Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, when representatives of what might be called India's "farm bloc"-the Bihar Landholders' Association -met recently, in Calcutta, and adopted a resolution demanding for British India a new Constitution "not in blind imitation of the West...
Having scattered these pearls of English vernacular before their Lordships, Baron Gorell announced that he is drafting a bill "to prohibit mock or bogus auctions" As an afterthought he added that "deuce phunt" means...
...Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married...