Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat of learning' he has cultivated quite a liking for the saddle," stated one of the attendants. "But he's 22 years old and a short run such as that around the Stadium, is about all he can do. The college influence has made him quite an aristocrat, but, thank God, we haven't been able to detect any signs of a Harvard accent on him yet. The last mule the Army brought to Cambridge was a draft animal used for dumping the garbage at Fort Banks, but the megaphones seemed to remind him of the garbage cans...
...facts. "There were no 'secrets' and no scandals to be exposed or explained." Lee's reputation as a soldier and a gentleman will not be tarnished by his latest biographer. Author Freeman's first two volumes take Lee from his birth as a Virginia aristocrat through the battle of Chancellorsville- which marked "Lee's high noon." Son of "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and son-in-law to George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington's adopted son, it was natural that Robert Edward Lee should enter his country's service. At West Point...
Lawrence and Frieda were a strangely assorted pair. Lawrence was a lower-class Englishman, Frieda a German aristocrat. When they first met, he was a poverty-laden unknown of 26, she a settled matron of 31, with three children, married to a Nottingham University professor. Lawrence went to tea, to call on the professor. He met Frieda instead, and they fell in love almost at first sight. Frieda tried to have an affair with him, but he insisted on all or nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck...
...This aristocrat, superb of all instinct...
...boom days of 1909 the class of 1884, returned for its 25th reunion presented this aristocrat among chugg-buggies to President Lowell. For many years it served its illustrious master faithfully, but at last was supplanted by a newer creation when the venerable Prexy surrendered to the modern urge for speed. It was given away, on the recipient's solemn promise never to return it to Cambridge, and for years it has cruised about the further reaches of Massachusetts, never till now returning to the scene of its halcyon days...