Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amiable as well as efficient, his trainer, Bob Smith, calls him "the finest, most obliging gentleman that I have ever known." On long trips this by no means handsome aristocrat travels in a car attached to crack trains like the Twentieth Century. He is accompanied by a stablemate, usually a horse named Anarchy whom he likes, by his Negro handler, Johnny Gaines, and his toy poodle. In Chicago, Cavalcade was annoyed by too many callers. Trainer Smith put him in another stall, substituted a horse named Sleuth which visitors, when told it was Cavalcade, freely photographed...
...when the monarchy passed away a white aristocrat named Sanford Ballard Dole became President of the Hawaiian Republic. In 1900, when the Republic became a U. S. Territory, he was named its first Governor and the same families, the Castles, the Cookes, the Binghams, the Dillinghams, the Judds, continued to rule. Like southern planters before the Civil War they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos...
...average of 77.6 m. p. h., on $16 worth of crude oil.* If Messrs. Budd had planned on getting to the Fair that day from Denver on one of Burlington's regular flyers, they would have had to entrain on the Aristocrat the afternoon before. Half an hour later, after appearing briefly on the stage of the Fair pageant Wings of a Century, history-making Zephyr shuttled over to the Fair's Travel & Transport Building for a summer's exhibition before being put in regular service between Kansas City and Omaha. She was a notable visitor...
Another adv.--We want every Harvard man to use Noisette Shaving Cream, the "aristocrat" of all shaving soaps, with our compliments. Your box--a creamy, pasty soap becomes your...
...Aristocrats among Amerindians are the Creeks, one of the five oldtime "civilized tribes." An aristocrat among Creeks is Juanita Deere McClish. Plump, pretty, full-lipped, she is 5 ft. tall, weighs 88 lb., will be 12 years old next June. Her widowed mother, Woosey Deere, owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer...