Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, was a chilly 18th Century aristocrat, diplomat and wit, whose famous letters to his son, designed to make the lad a blue chip off the old block, immortalized their author instead. Reared in the Age of Reason, Chesterfield also became its perfect symbol: a man who saw his time steadily, but never saw through...
...they tried to bow each other through a door. The Eisenhower campaign is in danger of a similar impasse. To get Ike and the Republican politicians through the door together will be a difficult, tricky job of organization. The man charged with this job is a personable, shrewd aristocrat from Massachusetts, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
Bernard Clark was "rarther a presumshious man," but after one glance at Ethel he "turned a dark red." When Mr. Salteena ("lapping up his turtle soup") congratulated him on his "sumpshous house," Bernard proved himself a true aristocrat. "He gave a weary smile and swallowed a few drops of sherry wine. It is fairly decent he replied...
Ivan Bunin, poet, novelist and aristocrat, is one of the last of these echoes of the old Russia. He is 80, almost bedridden with asthma, and he lives out his last years of exile in a Paris flat, half-forgotten by the world since he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933. What he has to say now, in Memories and Portraits, does more than evoke the people and places of his own past. Sometimes gently, sometimes tartly, it conveys the tragedy of a whole generation of intellectuals of good will...
...pair of elegant swindlers preying on a group of social snobs who turn out to be just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler. Their plans go awry, and the comedy shifts from drawing room to bedroom, when Lady Greer arouses...