Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker's death than his fiercest political foe in life, short, ruddy Congressman John Nance ("Jack") Garner of Texas, onetime cowboy, leader of the House Democrats. Tears filled his blue eyes when he heard the news. "My closest, my best-loved friend!" he exclaimed. "Mr. Longworth was an aristocrat. I am a plebeian. Perhaps the very fact of our different rearing intensified our interest in each other." As rival leaders of the House Garner and Longworth had joked over the Speaker's official automobile, called it "our car" (TIME, Nov. 17). After House hours they amicably reviewed...
...judgments of the Mass. As editor of the World, public ignorance was his field. As idealist, organized public intelligence was his dream. Pessimistic passages in his writing give the same impression that one gets from hearing the precise, clipped accents of his speaking voice, an impression of the intellectual aristocrat who sometimes despairs of public ignorance ever being cured, thus throwing the public's right to participate fully in Government open to question. 'With actual life outrunning politics and theories. Editor Lippmann has arrived at a state of mind where he believes, in effect, that a class of wholly "disinterested...
Lank, myopic John La Farge was born in New York in 1835, son of a French emigre from Santo Domingo who had made a fortune in real estate in Louisiana and New York. He died in Providence, R. I. 75 years later. A confirmed aristocrat and cosmopolite, he traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with...
...cohorts in the sticks, sir, Little dream he acts like that, It would put him in a fix, sir, To be dubbed aristocrat...
...Rupert Hughes's Jinka (Pekinese), John Held Jr.'s Madame (dachshund), Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's Tobie of Meridale (Pekinese), and their friends, anxiety reigned last week. Above 70th, where Mrs. August Belmont's Lillium von der Til Til (German Police) is but one aristocrat among many, reigned positive consternation. Small comfort, indeed little short of insult, was it for the authorities to assert that no properly muzzled dog need fear for its life...