Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alone last week 600 farmers were specifically menaced by actions to seize their livestock. Most Britons agree that the 1925 rates should have been scaled down before Parliament adjourned (TIME, Aug. 7), but the Lords & Commons went home without facing the issue. Last week for the first time an aristocrat popped up among England's tithe-embattled farmers. Horsy and determined Lady Evelyn Balfour is a niece of the late, great Lord Balfour who died a bachelor and left his title to her father, the present Earl Balfour. Last week pretty Lady Evelyn was among a crowd of more...
...characteristics which Hollywood most prizes he has been almost as much of a problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Critic Young anticipated. So far he has been a tongue-tied torpedo launch lieutenant in Today null a hero-worshipping secretary in Gabriel Over the White House ; and, currently, an aristocrat with indecision. Nonetheless, in parts which have had none of the richness of his stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome Tone, president of Carborundum Co., Franchot Tone went...
Count Nicolas has had an adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity...
When more Louisiana petitions kept arriving this week in the Senate, it became clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local...
...haunts him as it did Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than the joyous throngs who idled down the years after the first Versailles, unconscious that their house was tottering to its final destruction...