Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Correspondents who last week made a tour of the Midlands factory district, where most British airplanes and parts are made, reported no appreciable damage. One correspondent poked his nose into the garden of William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, who is Minister of Aircraft Production, and found everything quiet there. Not long before, Lord Beaverbrook had said: "If you want to see what damage Hitler's done, take a look into Beaverbrook's garden. When you see a little man tearing up and down, raging and shaking his fist at the sky, you'll know Hitler...
With that the conference moved to a swift Axis finish. In the Gold Room of "the Belvedere the two Hungarians and the two Rumanians met with Ciano, Ribbentrop and Baron Alexander von Dornberg, German Chief of Protocol...
Only one of the seven was in civilian clothes-Count Teleki." While Ribbentrop was reading the crisp decision, Rumania's Manoilescu grew pale and faint. Baron von Dornberg hastened to his side with a glass of water...
...Strong, King of Poland. Her great-grandfather was Augustus' bastard son, the famous soldier and tactician, Marshal Maurice de Saxe. Her grandmother married the Count de Horn, bastard son of Louis XV. Her mother was the daughter of a poolroom proprietor. Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant...
When Novelist John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (for his Scottish birthplace) of Elsfield (for his home in Oxford), died last February in his 66th year, his fifth as Governor General of Canada, he had already finished the autobiography his career made inevitable. This provision was of a piece with the career-workmanlike, ordered, conscientious, religiously dutiful -which the last of John Buchan's 50-odd books records...