Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Character. Baron von Maltzan, beside being one of the youngest Germans to attain ambassadorial rank, was also one of Germany's ablest diplomats. In personal appearance he was a typical German aristocrat, medium height, portly but not adipose, with an attractive genial face and sharp eyes. Of all his traits, perhaps his devotion to his family was the most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill...
...Apponyi, undaunted hero of 64 sabre duels. As the problem at issue really involves the practice of the Rumanians of virtually confiscating without payment the property of Hungarians, in accordance with the Rumanian Agrarian Reform but contrary to the peace treaty and to the minorities treaty, the venerable Magyar aristocrat pressed for an advisory opinion from the World Court...
...beautiful silliness that makes such alarming good sense when you come to think it over, and Arthur Sullivan's beguiling music can degenerate into oppressive bores. Mr. Ames sees to it that the stage keeps moving. His Mikado skips over huddles of prostrate subjects. His sonorous aristocrat, Pooh-Bah, is tantalized by lively, romping girls. The color combinations change and move, too, so vividly that the performance could fascinate a deaf-mute. Be sides there is a company of actors with unusually fine voices who have understanding hearts for the blithe spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan. Manhattan holds no sightlier...
...idle dreamer, Mr. Wood is shrewd enough to boom the fat daily as a necessary corollary to his new high-speed printing and feeding machinery. He is one of those manufacturers who take pride in combining the appearance of an English aristocrat with an up-to-the-moment knowledge of aeronautics, yachting, advertising, printing...
...second-and third-class cars; but last week the Berlin subway, responsive to modern Republican ideals, threw all its cars open to the public without discrimination at a 20 pfennig fare (5c). Many a proletarian grumbled because the onetime third-class fare had been only 15 pfennigs. Many an aristocrat was vexed to be crowded into third-class cars with wooden benches, while pushful workingmen reclined on first-class red velvet. All, however, were elated with civic pride at another feature of the new service: the one-class fare ticket is valid not only on the subway but permits transfer...