Word: aristocrat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bean, the sacred cod and the Bunker Hill Monument. Portly Democrat Paul Dever, a seasoned performer and a spellbinder among the masses, who had croaked his way to national TV fame as keynoter at the Democratic Convention last summer, had looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with a slam-bang attack on Dever...
Persimmons in Sparta. As Massachusetts' 55th governor, Christian Herter joins a variegated pantheon of men who have occupied the handsome old Bulfinch statehouse. The first governor was John Hancock, a vain and arrogant aristocrat who was as popular as he was inept, won nine terms in office. Poor, plain Sam Adams tried and failed to turn the Commonwealth into a "Christian Sparta." The election of David I. Walsh marked the rising tide of immigration: he was the first Irish Catholic to win the governorship. Persimmon-faced Cal Coolidge reversed the trend, turned back to Yankee conservatism. In three terms...
...Cheka). Yagoda did a thorough job and, in due time, he got his reward: he was charged, like thousands of his victims, with being an enemy of the people, imperialist spy, etc. Yagoda was the third of the great cops, following Felix Dzerzhinsky, the lean, cat-eyed Polish aristocrat, who lies buried in the Kremlin wall, and Vyacheslav Menshinsky, another Pole, who invented the great show trials of 1936 (Vishinsky prosecuting) and was himself later done...
...also of the oak when principle is involved. Principle No. 1 is that Britain is not to be pushed around (his speech on the "scuttle" of Abadan was the most violent of all); principle No. 2 is that Britain's international conduct should be moral. Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly superior to any cynical bargain, be it with Moscow or Peking, even when Churchill, the politician...
...committee's meetings. Ulrich meets a variety of "important personages" undoubtedly intended to reappear in the later pages of the novel: a befuddled aristocrat; a Prussian millionaire with a vast amount of useless erudition; a general who insists that the Collateral Campaign must recognize the military glories of the Empire ; and the female inspiration behind the whole campaign, a statuesque middle-class beauty given to high-minded speeches about Kultur. As might be expected the meetings of the committee end merely with decisions to set up still more committees...