Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left her for Adventuress Sonia, who got as much money...
...have you got one real man in England-I care not what you call him: autocrat, democrat, aristocrat-who can rule and dare not lie? I hope my old friend Ramsay MacDonald will at least prove the man to rule and that he will not dare to lie to his own conscience, to his own dead wife, to his living country, to his own party, and that you British delegates of all parties will help him to make history...
This reckless, blustering young aristocrat is one of the closest friends of Aus-trian-born Adolf Hitler, Fascist bogyman of Germany. His castle, moldering and feudal Schloss Waxenberg perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy...
...only child had been born dead, she could never have another. She had almost given up expecting anything to happen. She ate too many chocolates, went too often to the cinema. Then one day she met young Hugh Miller, nephew of Tom's boss. Hugh was an aristocrat who did everything well, even wandering. They met only a few times. He thought she was queer but rather nice, soon forgot her when he went away. Her memory of him lasted the rest of her life...
...thief has been plundering London's West End homes of art treasures since early summer. He is apparently a cosmopolite, a socialite, an aristocrat. He steals only valuable and famed paintings. He filches mainly during socialite functions. Garden parties are his forte. He made off with a Van Dyck-Feddinand the Cardinal-while guests of Lord Clarendon gossiped over their cups on the lawn. At the Earl of Minto's home, besides the Reynolds, he helped himself to $100.000 worth of the Countess of Minto's jewels...