Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enter an Aristocrat. All that is quite a commotion to be stirred up by a man from Millsboro, Del., and some might expect that he is about to be overwhelmingly and triumphantly returned to the Senate by the grateful citizens of his state. This happy ending, however, is by no means certain. John Williams is facing a very tough fight for re-election this year...
Christian A. Herter, to the banner-waving Democrat, is a Beacon Hill aristocrat who, as Dever said recently, has "no more understanding of the problems of the men and women who must work for a living than a blind man of colors." But to the Republican, perturbed about innumerable men clocking cars on useless roads during the campaign, Herter will cut down pregnant payrolls...
Marie and Gilles, two young lovers in a provincial French town, are fatuously devoted to each other. All that keeps them apart is the snobbery of Marie's parvenu mother. They contrive to meet with the help of an ugly and impoverished aristocrat named Agathe, who has been reduced to working as Marie's governess...
...reddish-brown head spots, it is one of the most beautiful of birds. In flight, its wingspread is seven feet; on the ground, it walks haughtily through marshes in search of frogs and snakes, or performs its pre-mating dance with rapid grace. It is an aloof, snobbish aristocrat which sticks with its own family, fights off other cranes who come to poach on its hunting grounds...
...crane is a vanishing aristocrat. Like human monarchs, it has had trouble adjusting to modern times and keeping its royal line going. Most of the whooping cranes disappeared with the American and Canadian frontier. Today the crane is the rarest bird on the continent; only 25 are known to exist...