Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre estate in Germany, at Chossewitz. There, though Tenor Melchior does not sing in Germany any more, he spends his summers. On an island in the middle of a lake, near the former Polish border, he inhabits what was originally the fortress of a medieval robber baron. All summer long, Lauritz Melchior invites his soul in this rustic barony. He likes to dress in Lederhosen, hunt his own land for rabbit, red deer or pheasant. On these expeditions he always carries his little brass hunting horn, blows a blast on it like Siegfried himself...
...Canada this week the appointment of Mr. Stanley was viewed askance, for Canadian troops have been writing home rhapsodies about the fine treatment they have been given by "The Tommy's Friend." In London the Daily Express of self-made Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook gloomed: "Mr. Oliver Stanley is a most unsatisfactory appointment. . . . He belongs to the Tory hierarchy. . . . Belisha does not belong to that class...
...pray," suggested the father. On leaving the church his father said: "I think you will have to go." Replied the son: "I think so too." Since a Viceroy is traditionally a peer and Edward Wood had not yet inherited his father's title, the King made him Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale...
Promptly in Ottawa bookish Canadian Governor General Baron Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, both adept quotation spotters, expressed themselves as "most interested in the authorship of the quotation," but stumped. Cried Canadian Parliamentary Librarian Francis Hardy: "I have looked in every known work of appropriate reference without finding...
Last week Finnish Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim announced that three Lottas, Lissa Uurasmaa on the Arctic front, Julia Shemeikka and Julia Nerkuu on the Eastern front, had "remained faithfully at their dangerous posts and are the first Lottas to be killed in action." Said he: "In the name of the Army we pay tribute to their memory...