Word: barons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, on the first anniversary of the day George V fell ill, the Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...
...long ago he was ignominiously unseated from the Assembly for bribery in elections: free drinks on election day, free uniforms for the local fire brigade, free cows for peasants of questionable loyalty. In the recent Senatorial elections Senator-Baron Maurice was more cautious. He bought no cows, contented himself with brilliantly elaborate invective against his unfortunate opponent, one Paul Hoeffler...
...Monday?"Baron Subkoff was here for dinner. He appears to be a most interesting young man?slender, dark and good-looking. He is very intelligent, and I shall continue to invite...
Wednesday?"Baron Subkoff came today and we played tennis. I hope he will continue to call on me. He strikes me as the ideal companion for a lady, and I have an impression that he is also fond...
Famed but false is the story that infatuated Victoria dubbed Subkoff "Baron" herself with a sword belonging to her ex-Imperial brother. Her diary is the best proof that Subkoff was presented to her as a Russian nobleman exiled but honorable. Actually his father was a cobbler. He himself has admitted practicing the lowest profession?pimping?at Marseilles, where he guided low-minded tourists to the foulest stews in France. But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young...