Word: aristocratic
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Captain Fitzroy was an aristocrat who faithfully followed the path of an upperclass son in politics. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he entered the House as Conservative Member for South Northamptonshire in 1900. He was wounded at Ypres in 1914, elected Speaker in 1928. The Scotsman justly called him: "An impartial president over debate, the guardian of the privileges of the House, the protector of minorities, and the defender of freedom of speech." Death came at 73, in the severely blitzed 50-room Speaker's House, directly beneath...
...picks him up in the fog, nurses him to health and the altar. They are happily tucked away in a little cottage, complete with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life as an aristocrat, becomes an industrial tycoon...
Returning home, young Randolph lectured British audiences on life in America and the poor quality of American food. He got a job earning ?2,000 a year working for the Hearst press. (To a British aristocrat the source of money is of small importance.) But he itched to be a proper politician. He tried three times, a boisterous, hard-hitting, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament who rebelled against Conservative Party tactics and advice. One month after World War II began he married redhaired, green-eyed Socialite Pamela Digby, daughter of the nth Baron Digby. He was then a subaltern...
...last vintage, Rundstedt is among the best. He was born, as one should be, in Prussia, to a family which for generations had glorified the sword and service to the Fatherland, and nothing else. His father was an aristocrat and a general. So would...
...aristocrat by birth, a "repentant bourgeois" by definition, Nehru has fought "muddled humanitarians" and opportunists among the Hindu intellectuals and middle class bourgeoisie which form the core of the Congress party. Started in 1885 by a retired British colonial, the party, since Gandhi took control of it in World War I, has had a melange of supporters held together by one goal: Swaraj (political independence...