Word: aristocrat
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Helen Hayes's brilliant performance fits into this spirit nearly perfectly, which is not really surprising, although playing an exaggeratedly gay, moderately mad French aristocrat might have seemed a bit beyond her great scope and skill. She triumphs, as usual. Her gestures are a catalogue of how to act; her bright eyes and posed postures handle comedy with a great flourish...
...Aduldet, then sent personal messages to the U.S. and British embassies assuring them that the change in government presaged no change in Thailand's pro-Western foreign policy. As an earnest of his intentions, Sarit saw to it that able, pro-Western Pote Sarasin, a 52-year-old aristocrat who served for five years as Ambassador to Washington, was named temporary Premier. Meanwhile, a scheduled meeting of the SEATO military group convened in Bangkok without a hitch. Said Sarit: "Only the hosts have changed...
...harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted the face of Conscience. One-eyed John Trumbull, an aristocrat who painted small pictures that could be encompassed with his limited vision, was a Fourth of July painter par excellence. He painted his famed The Declaration of Independence (see overleaf) on a canvas only 30 inches wide, compressed in the scene 48 convincingly grouped portrait figures (at the table before...
...Austrian figure of fun, a degenerate young aristocrat who always says stupid things that are somehow not so stupid after all. Example: when the tide began to turn against the Nazis, Graf Bobby went into a map store one day and asked for a globe of Germany...
...handsome young New York aristocrat with a politically useful name spotlighted the man he wanted to see as the next President of the U.S. Said Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Herbert Hoover: "He is certainly a wonder and I wish we could make him President . . . There could not be a better one." By 1932, no two men lived in colder enmity. In F.D.R.'s view. Hoover had become a dragon who was devouring the common man. To Hoover, Roosevelt was at worst an economic madman, at best a mere "featherduster" (the nickname had been devised by kindly friends who considered...