Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...renamed Luftwaffe Squadron 3 the Udet Squadron and ordered a state funeral. Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring delivered the eulogy, then waddled after the flag-draped gun carriage on the mile-long march through silent, crowded streets to the cemetery. They buried him near the grave of Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...team badly jarred is the New York Americans. Five of its most promising youngsters (from the strict Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan) were refused passports. But the Americans have become accustomed to bad breaks ever since the league took the club away from its financially embarrassed owner, onetime Beer Baron...
...London last week the right to habeas corpus was stoutly defended, war or no war, by bald, handsome James Richard Baron Atkin, 74, in a dissenting opinion likely to rank with some of those of the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Baron Edouard de Rothschild's racing stables, seized by the Government when he fled to the U.S., were auctioned in Paris, brought...
...looked 40. His face was pale, bloated, sallow. "The knuckles of his hands were lost in fat. . . . With his long, greying curls, his rings and brooches, the outmoded clothes he wore, he suggested ... an expatriate of dubious propensities but distinguished origins. . . ." He also suggested Proust's Baron de Charlus...