Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Five-&-Ten Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, as the wife of a Danish nobleman, renounced her U. S. citizenship, possibly to escape $21,000,000 in inheritance taxes, submitted to registration and fingerprinting as an alien...
...brother of the more famed Hans the Younger), which he bought from Manhattan's E. and A. Silberman Galleries. The Rubens, a portrait of Elizabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had been until lately in one of Europe's ex-royal families. The Titian, Portrait of a Nobleman, came from a Vienna museum. Said Mr. Rose: "The money that I have made has come from the public. If my collection grows important enough to warrant turning it over to the public after my death, I think that would be the logical thing to do. I believe that anyone...
Edison the Man (M. G. M.). Villiers de I'Isle-Adam, eccentric French nobleman, spent much of his life on Paris park benches, scribbling on scraps of paper which he filed in his tattered pockets. When one batch of scraps was collated, it turned out to be a fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh...
Government. Too sickly to attend school, he was tutored in Turkish and in military strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...
Bates deals brilliantly and justly with Puritanism in New England, gives most of his admiration to the radical minister Roger Williams, who founded religious liberty in Rhode Island, the radical nobleman William Penn, who brought the Quaker Colony to the New World...