Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actresses are not presented at Court to Their Britannic Majesties.* Neither are acrobats, ballerinas, lady ventriloquists, tight-wire dancers, professional fat women, female pugilists. But what about a lady monologuist? What about famed Ruth Draper, solitary U. S. aristocrat of the blatant sisterhood? Last week at the Third Court of the present London Season there were presented to Their Majesties, at Buckingham Palace, eight U. S. citizenesses: Mrs. Alton Brooks Parker, widow of the Democratic candidate for President of the U. S. in 1904. Miss Ruth Draper of Manhattan. Miss Lois Davidson, Houston, Tex.; Miss Neville T. Gherardi, Chevy Chase...
Having sworn, the caucus approved a resolution calling upon the regency-which reigns for six-year-old King Mihai-to dismiss Aristocrat Vintila Bratiano and call to the Prime Ministry onetime Peasant Juliu Maniu...
Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian aristocrat, is the backer and passenger of the flight. Seriously wounded in the War, he was invalided out of service and sent to Holland in the German consular service. A close friend of the former Crown Prince, he shared the first days of his dreary exile. He is 36, married, superstitious...
...Your Man, like most of Clara Bow's productions, is constructed almost entirely upon the theme of her celebrated sex-appeal. In this one she meets a standardized, youthful, French aristocrat on the point of marrying a girl he does not love because he has been engaged to her practically since birth. Clara Bow, in the part of his true inamorata, finds ingenious and not unentertaining devices which permit this tragic possibility to be avoided. Through these devices the "It" motif, which sounded loudly through It and Hula, runs like the sound of ten trombones and a fiddle...
GEORG TCHITCHERIN (cheat-cher-'een), 55, is Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Onetime aristocrat and diplomat, he threw up his appointment in Berlin in 1905, associated himself with the Socialist movement, was banished from Germany in 1908, since when he has remained an ardent Bolshevist. During the War he was imprisoned in England whence he was expelled in 1917. returning to Russia in January, 1918. As Foreign Commissioner he has been noted for his suave touch and clever diplomacy in the conduct of the foreign affairs...