Word: aristocrat
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...marry. Her father is a boor who unfailingly pours the sour wine of shop talk at the evening meal. Her mother is an amateur pianist with an outlook on life as romantic and melancholy as a Chopin nocturne. When Sandra's mother falls in love with an effete aristocrat, Papa Corteggiani crushes her with a phrase or two, e.g., "All women are . . . sluts," and she drowns herself in the Tiber...
...came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
...Moscow echoes in his speech, Allied Intelligence agents questioned him last week. Reichenau's explanation: he had salted away $1,000 a month during his 20-year stint as a military adviser to the Chinese Nationalists. Protested Von Reichenau: "It is absurd to accuse an aristocrat of cooperating with Communists . . . As others find pleasure in theater and dancing . . . I am a collector of soldiers' opinions...
...Enter an Aristocrat. All that is quite a commotion to be stirred up by a man from Millsboro, Del., and some might expect that he is about to be overwhelmingly and triumphantly returned to the Senate by the grateful citizens of his state. This happy ending, however, is by no means certain. John Williams is facing a very tough fight for re-election this year...
Christian A. Herter, to the banner-waving Democrat, is a Beacon Hill aristocrat who, as Dever said recently, has "no more understanding of the problems of the men and women who must work for a living than a blind man of colors." But to the Republican, perturbed about innumerable men clocking cars on useless roads during the campaign, Herter will cut down pregnant payrolls...