Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...
Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret...
Born in Seville, Spain (1599), the son of a petty Portuguese nobleman, Velazquez began to study painting at the age of twelve. As a court painter he sat at a table with the royal buffoons, received the same daily allowance as the royal barbers. But his job gave him the two things he needed most, a powerful protector and a studio of his own. He painted in it for 36 years, until he died suddenly of a fever...
...Nest, by Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery (1903), being the first movie ever to tell a story, is one of the most important films ever made. The baby is anonymous. The eagle is stuffed. The Nature is by Richard Murphy. The Nature's Nobleman, who later rescues the baby, was played by a young actor named David Wark Griffith...
Balloon Wanted. For 18 years the temperamental Baron has been a luxurious virtuoso among fashion photographers in the U.S. George Hoyningen-Huene was born in imperial St. Petersburg, the son of a Baltic nobleman and an American woman from Detroit. The Hoyningen-Huene family title dates from the 12th Century. During the Russian Revolution young Huene studied in England. After the Armistice he joined the British Army and served in South Russia...