Word: aristocratically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harper's occasionally took note of some of the social evils of the growing nation. However, as Editor Allen points out in his review of Harper's own century, the magazine then had "the tone of an aristocrat reminding other aristocrats of the regrettable conditions among the unfortunate if picturesque members of the lower orders." Thus an article in 1873, entitled The Little Laborers of New York City," unemotionally reported that of the 100,000 children working in the factories many were permitted "to take home enough material to do extra work, after the regular ten-hour...
...your groping for an . . . adjective to describe Senator Maybank's accent [TIME, Sept. 11 ], you made a poor choice in "molasses." Since he is a Charleston aristocrat, his speech is better described as a brogue, sharp, distinct, and staccato...
...Promises. Of the three, stiff-backed General Gomes could count on the most solid, unsplit block of votes, the same 2,000,000 he won as Dutra's runnerup in 1945. But many Brazilians wrote him off as a crusty aristocrat, and the Brigadeiro characteristically refused to cut loose with the slashing spiels that might win him wider backing. "I have built my house," he snapped. "Now I can't add any more floors to it." Dutra's Candidate Machado was even less disposed to lash out from the stump. But the mild little man from Minas...
Like Ford himself, Hero Tietjens is a huge, oxlike, blue-eyed creature with the brain of a poet and scholar. Unlike Ford, he is the descendant of generations of landed English gentry, and so thorough a natural aristocrat that he is almost incapable of hearing, let alone noticing, the personal criticisms of others. Whether reading Latin, running his hand over a horse or juggling with abstruse mathematical formulae, Christopher Tietjens is omniscient and, when the story begins just before World War I, apparently omnipotent to boot...
Wrote Pegler: "The Empress Eleanor recently made a sentimental journey to the Deep South, and [it] prompted her to prattle discreetly about her fine old aristocratic Southern background. 'My grandmother was a Bulloch from Georgia,' she wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...