Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reign of terriers, which had lasted since 1922. To win first place Laund Loyalty had to be judged best collie, best working dog, best brace (teamed with Bellhaven Stronghold II) and best team (with Bellhaven Stronghold II, Bellhaven Brilliancy and Laund Lindbergh of Bellhaven). Second-best-dog was Eden Aristocrat of Wildoaks, a wire-haired fox terrier owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bondy, of Golden-bridge, N. Y. Third was Herewithem J. P., a pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney of Pittsburgh; fourth, King Pippin of Greystones, a Pekingese owned by Mrs. C. Hager of Braddock, Pa.; fifth...
Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky wrote other music than Boris Godounov. Yet so little is known of it, so little of the man himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people...
...parents christened her Martha McChesney Berry. For her they must have envisioned a gracious membership in the Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, also a brilliant Southern marriage. But Miss Berry never married. Nor did she choose the delicately charming life of a Southern aristocrat...
...Robert Goelet, oldtime Republican, Manhattan aristocrat-financier. Reason: "the best informed man on public affairs in the country...
...beautiful girls and elaborate scenery, yodeling a plea for stout-hearted men made tuneful by Sigmund Romberg, Robert (Robert Halliday) and his assistant (William O'Neal) organize their golden expedition. Robert is not content with merely this adventure; in making pretty passes at the hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then turns to a peaceful island and its occupants...