Word: aristocrat
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...about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most clearly." Sandemar, a world-roaming aristocrat among tramps, carries a slate on which he writes and then wipes out his thoughts. Why? "I'll tell you-because we have found nothing. We merely find that it is possible to say almost anything. But afterward we strike out by degrees everything that can be said...
Abdullah's country was scarcely bigger than Indiana, a black-tent kingdom populated by nomadic Bedouins. But the Arab Legion, which the British created and supported for him, made Abdullah a power among the ill-organized Arab armies of the Middle East. Abdullah was a strong-minded aristocrat who used to tell his Cabinets: "Do what I say, or I'll get another government in the morning." He dreamed of an Arab "Greater Syria," a state that would include Trans-Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon...
Without law or precedent to justify him, the mayor, himself a well-heeled aristocrat, began a campaign to equalize local resources in a system of "voluntary donations" levied against the rich. "I myself opened the subscription with a donation of 2,000 pesetas," he said. "Then I dedicated myself to visiting all the well-off people to obtain donations...
Admittedly the romance in the play is well done. Eugenie Leontovich, as the Dowager Empress, carries her role of the Russian aristocrat with dignity and verve. When wit is called for, she displays a convincingly restrained emotion. Although Dolly Haas, who plays Anastasia, is forced to carry on in a heart-straining tremulo throughout the whole play, she manages to keep it from being tiresome. With her grandmother and her two muzhik, admirers she can even be exciting, while her portrayal of a psychotic soul returning to normality seems accurate, wherever it is allowed to peep through the rest...
...models called the Premiere and Capri. In both looks and engineering, they represent a thorough redesign of previous Lincolns. They also represent the beginning of an ambitious campaign. Starting with these two models. Lincoln hopes gradually to edge General Motors' Cadillac from its position as the aristocrat of U.S. cars...