Word: aristocratism
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...Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua where he saw the elder sister, Isabella, in her own magnificent court. He was 47 she 25, already a brilliant, beautiful Latin aristocrat of the Renaissance. She made him promise to paint her portrait and he did a preliminary chalk drawing, which is now in the Louvre. He moved on to Florence and finally in 1502 into the employ of the "Bloody Borgia," Cesare, to follow for a year in the violent wake...
Benito Mussolini has been a Socialist, a soldier, a Fascist. Josef Pilsudski performed several flip-flops more. He was born a Polish aristocrat, at Zulow, Province of Vilna, but his family had already lost most of its wealth through participation in a brief revolt against Imperial Russia in 1864. When Josef was seven the family fortunes were wiped out in a disastrous fire. Through high school he was in constant hot water with his teachers by insisting on speaking Polish...
...have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class virginity on a third-class deck, while another is the bitter challenege of a young aristocrat whom the depression forcs from college...
...home two years later cured of glory and minus a thumb-joint, to find his wife and his job better than ever. In the post-War building boom he was paid the union rates of $18.75 a day, got the idea that labor was king and a bricklayer the aristocrat of labor. He bought a house, a car, a radio (all on in-stallments), joined the Elks; his wife began to play bridge and put on other airs. Because he felt so prosperous Matt thought he would knock off work awhile, take his family on a tour around the country...
...little social sets, but among his fellow Congressmen he plays the good fellow with convincing affability. Ruddy, blue-eyed and handsome, he was once picked by famed Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as the ideal type of "future American." ("What are they trying to do, make a fool of me?" roared Aristocrat Bacon when he heard the news.) But despite all these distinctions, "Bob" Bacon, a regular member of the minority party, certainly did not look like the kind of man who could effect a major change in a major Democratic...