Word: ancelots
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...Ancelots are lower down in the social scale, but just as disorganized. Papa Ancelot, a shoestring operator in the stock market, rails at his giddy daughters for going around with gigolos. But the daughters have found that they can distract Papa from his tirades by pushing him into the receptive arms of the housemaid. Mama and daughters work up fervors over Russian films, talk yearningly about the coming French revolution. One daughter guesses that 500,000 heads will fall. "I find [the idea] breathtakingly pure," replies Mama Ancelot...
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