Word: aristocratism
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...jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...Field Marshal Baron Maximilian von Weichs, 63, bespectacled aristocrat, general staffer in World War I, Nazi commander in the Balkans in World War II. Last week the Yugoslav Government requested his extradition as a war criminal...
...artists themselves were as amoral, antisocial and perverse as their works. The artist, the disciples of art for art's sake pointed out, was not a reformer, not a teacher, and certainly not a creature bound by ordinary laws. He was the last of the aristocrats in a world being turned over to mob rule. He followed his exquisite sensations wherever they might lead him; personal excess was his right. Poet Baudelaire managed to combine all the ideals: he smoked hashish, lived with Negresses, wrote brilliant, sensual, satanic poems. But, as an aristocrat, he dressed immaculately in the British...
Experiment Perilous (RKO-Radio), a not very thrilling thriller, is the story of a demented Austrian aristocrat (Paul Lukas) who meets, marries and sophisticates a once-pastoral Vermont girl (Hedy Lamarr), then proceeds to poison the mind of her child against her and all but destroy her sanity and her life. He is foiled just in time by George Brent, who takes her back to Vermont, where she and her child rapidly recuperate...
...private life he is equally devoted to the things which he thinks become a gentleman and an aristocrat. An Episcopalian, he goes to church almost every day and sometimes twice or thrice on Sunday, often taking his entire staff of 40. (He also keeps a Bible on his desk, another in his brief case.) He likes to drive a car at a hell-for-leather clip and sometimes does the same with a jeep, although in his present post he has several chauffeurs, including Henry Chambers, a Negro staff sergeant who has been with him for 18 years...