Word: aristocratism
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...Give 'Itler 'Ell!" was Ernie's motto when he joined Winston Churchill in the Coalition Cabinet in 1940. Like Winnie, but in his own Socialist way, Ernie seemed a reincarnation of John Bull. When Schoolmaster Attlee's Socialism supplanted Aristocrat Churchill's Toryism, it was Ernie rather than any of his more doctrinaire colleagues who symbolized Britain's New Order. But after he became Foreign Secretary, Bevin roared: "Everyone is expecting me to change our policy. They forget that facts never change...
Journey for Our Time, by Astolphe de Custine. The travels and disillusionments of a French aristocrat who went to Russia in 1839 and found a police state (TIME, April...
Journey for Our Time, by Astolphe de Custine. The travels and disillusionments of a French aristocrat who went to Russia in 1839 and found a police state (TIME, April...
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...