Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great octagonal Central Hall of the House of Commons, crying out against the Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 28). This week Mr. Eden, had he cared to make difficulties for the Prime Minister who forced his resignation, could easily have provoked a monster demonstration. Instead "Tony" Eden, a British aristocrat who thinks first of being true to his class, kept away from his seat in the House of Commons, remained with his sister the Countess of Warwick at her villa on the French Riviera...
...coronation. At another Westminster show, held in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Americans last week saw another coronation of less solemnity but more suspense. For until Judge John Bates stepped into the main ring and made his choice, 15,000 spectators had no knowledge which canine aristocrat would be crowned...
Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...
...Aristocrat Cecil during the War was British Minister of Blockade, became one of the drafters of the Covenant of the League of Nations. In 1924 he was the first winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's $25,000 award for having striven for "world Peace through Justice...
...touch with 88-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (elder statesmen) who advised the late great Emperor Meiji. The ancient Prince had the very man groomed for such an emergency - dapper 45-year-old Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the House of Peers, an independent, nonparty aristocrat who was nominated for Premier three years ago while he was in New York taking the temperature of the U. S. about naval disarmament. He was then prevented from accepting by Prince Saionji because the time was not ripe...