Word: aristocrat
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...Prime Minister thus occupied himself, the Empire had opportunity to pass judgment on how the House of Chamberlain has served it politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience...
...British Labor movement, never militantly class-conscious and just plain anxious not to fight, was this week-as usual-the despair of those British forces which would have liked to ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now like to ashcan Neville Chamberlain. It was no worker but an especially gilded British aristocrat, the husband of Mayfair's glamorous Lady Diana ("The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle") Duff Cooper, who was first in London to take up potent cudgels against the Prime Minister (see p. 19) by resigning from the Cabinet...
Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS-Marcos Spinelli -Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer...
...just on the point of raising an Indian from the dead, which gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez; the Garcia family-old Garcia with a silky beard and a taste for music, his young wife, his eldest son, Manuel, home on a holiday from the Texas oil fields, his youngest son, Carlos...
...when the death of her widowed father, a Chicago cop, leaves her an orphan. May knows how to take care of herself. ("Off with you," she tells the oglers, "or I'll knock the Holy Jesus out of you.") At the same time, "deep down May was an aristocrat, a lady." She proves it by marrying handsome, good-for-nothing Mike Flavin, who takes her to Manhattan, buys a newsstand, leaves her to carry on while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time...