Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left off composing sonnets to fight ignorance, superstition, drunkenness, prejudice, disease, dirt." Bitterly attacked. Saved Tsarist statues from the mob. Heated art galleries during fuel famines. Assisted by wives of Soviet leaders. Sans peur et sans reproche, the "gentleman" of the Revolution. Of Gregory Vassilievitch Tchitcherin, Foreign Minister, aristocrat: "Living alone in a barren room on the top floor of the Foreign Office, he is as far removed socially and physically from the lower as from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him. He abhors new clothes, does not like...
Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...
...Club in the city a week later at the dedication of the new sailors' gymnasium. Half of the cast was composed of English members of the Hissar Players. The high artistic excellence of the performances was largely due to Dr. Watson who, besides taking the part of the English aristocrat, Lord Loani, coached and directed the play...
...Oxford there is not evident the athletic aristocrat who is so conspicuous in American institutions, for athletics are not monopolized by a small number of men, trained by high-salaried and specialized coaches, nor do the men appear before such a large number of students. Athletic success does not determine a man's position as much as here...
Another "Harvard Weekly" yesterday made its appearance on the Square. In opposition to its forerunner, "The Aristocrat", whose first issue came out on April 4, the new paper is entitled "The Proletarian...