Word: aristocratism
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...This aristocrat, superb of all instinct...
...boom days of 1909 the class of 1884, returned for its 25th reunion presented this aristocrat among chugg-buggies to President Lowell. For many years it served its illustrious master faithfully, but at last was supplanted by a newer creation when the venerable Prexy surrendered to the modern urge for speed. It was given away, on the recipient's solemn promise never to return it to Cambridge, and for years it has cruised about the further reaches of Massachusetts, never till now returning to the scene of its halcyon days...
Amiable as well as efficient, his trainer, Bob Smith, calls him "the finest, most obliging gentleman that I have ever known." On long trips this by no means handsome aristocrat travels in a car attached to crack trains like the Twentieth Century. He is accompanied by a stablemate, usually a horse named Anarchy whom he likes, by his Negro handler, Johnny Gaines, and his toy poodle. In Chicago, Cavalcade was annoyed by too many callers. Trainer Smith put him in another stall, substituted a horse named Sleuth which visitors, when told it was Cavalcade, freely photographed...
...when the monarchy passed away a white aristocrat named Sanford Ballard Dole became President of the Hawaiian Republic. In 1900, when the Republic became a U. S. Territory, he was named its first Governor and the same families, the Castles, the Cookes, the Binghams, the Dillinghams, the Judds, continued to rule. Like southern planters before the Civil War they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos...
Another adv.--We want every Harvard man to use Noisette Shaving Cream, the "aristocrat" of all shaving soaps, with our compliments. Your box--a creamy, pasty soap becomes your...