Word: aristocratic
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Friends and acquaintances are dragged before the People's Court and sentenced to be hanged with piano wire. Others kill themselves or slip off to the sanctuary of their family castles. But the spunky aristocrat remains at her job with a government information office, where there is less danger from the Gestapo than from Allied bombs. Her final months of war are spent as a nurse in Austria. A year later, she marries an American Army officer in a traditional Russian Orthodox service, with a French count and a German prince holding the wedding crown...
...only beat the Brahmins, he joined them and established the Kennedy style: an irresistible fusion of the parvenu with a parody of the old-shoe aristocrat. As a movie-industry wheeler-dealer in the '20s, he introduced a bit of Harvard to Hollywood. But back East it was show business as usual, especially when he introduced his mistress Gloria Swanson to Rose. The high point of his social climb was undoubtedly the * ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's in 1938. "This is a helluva long way from East Boston," he told his wife during a weekend with...
...Missouri Aristocrat...
Bond embodies that turn to the right. An aristocrat whose grandfather made a family fortune selling fire-resistant brick, the Princeton-educated, preppie-looking Bond entered Republican politics young and in 1972 became Missouri's first Republican Governor in 32 years. He was then considered a moderate, and his reformist notions and support of the Equal Rights Amendment alienated some G.O.P. conservatives. Defeated for re-election in 1976, he came back as a conservative and won a second term four years later. During the Senate campaign, Bond got an unintentional boost when Woods ran a TV spot that pictured...
...swell -- is comic but farfetched. Yet the gaudy $4 million production has an unabashed desire to please, touches of sprightly invention (a mounted suit of armor abruptly walks offstage; ancestor portraits come alive and tap-dance) and a hugely likable cast, led by Robert Lindsay as the newfound aristocrat and Maryann Plunkett as the plucky working-class girl who means more to him than ermine and marbled halls. The earl-to-be spurns his title for love, the girl rejects his proposals so as not to deprive him, and love finally conquers all -- with the slyly introduced help of Shaw...