Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banker." Even though his Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is the aristocrat of rail unions, stocky Alvanley Johnston is not the aristocrat of rail union leaders. Except for blunders which almost wrecked it, his 21-year career at the top has been notable for stodgy conservatism and heavy-handed secrecy...
...aloof, too much the quiet, impenetrable aristocrat. He was not in any sense a guy Brooklyn would go for. Worse, he was a Chamberlain man-one of the men of Munich. Why had Churchill sent him, anyhow? Forecasting his mission, people called him "Lord Holy Fox" and quoted Anglophobe Quincy Howe: "England expects every American to do his duty...
...imperious autocrat of Argentina's intellectual life is a woman. Now 54, tall, tailored Victoria Ocampo has been her country's acknowledged "Queen of Letters" for nearly a quarter of a century.* As essayist, she speaks for the old traditions: the French-speaking aristocrat reluctant to cut the cord to Europe. As editor, she speaks for tomorrow: the new and national literature for which Argentina strives...
Waugh's comrades-in-arms were not favorably impressed by his nonchalance: they expected him to draw enemy bombs. His good friend and commanding officer Major Randolph Churchill (an old-style aristocrat who now writes a column for United Feature Syndicate) cried something to the effect that this was not the Battle of Agincourt. Waugh forsook his lonely eminence, in icy rage removed his coat. "It was not your rudeness I minded," he explained to Major Churchill, "it was your cowardice that surprised...
...jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...