Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...
...blooded families of the U. S. have founded many a dynasty of bankers, polo players, industrialists, hell-raisers. Few are the dynasties of U. S. churchmen. An outstanding exception are the Kinsolvings of Virginia. George Washington Lee Kinsolving, a Tidewater aristocrat who once cut short a long sermon with, "Parson, isn't it grog time?", was bound that his only son should enter the church. Last week a great-grandson of old George Kinsolving did something as hearty as his ancestor's remark. He announced that he was leaving his big, rich, famed Boston parish for a small...
Sweden's burly Premier Per Albin Hansson has been called "the Swedish Roosevelt." Swedes call Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin...
Born "dead" and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a "cottagy" house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith. Her father was the Earl of Birkenhead, a tall, olive-skinned aristocrat who started life as plain F. E. Smith. Her paternal great-grandmother was a gypsy named Bathsheba. As between her title and her gypsy blood, Lady Eleanor much prefers to have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly...
...Viceroy and Governor General of India. His sole qualification for that job seemed to be that his grandfather, Sir Charles Wood (the first Lord Halifax), had been Secretary of State for India. Actually his best qualification, as events proved, was that he was a charming, quiet, high-minded British aristocrat...