Word: aristocratism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other books: The Revolutionary Spirit in France and in America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times, Washington: Republican Aristocrat...
Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...
...alone last week 600 farmers were specifically menaced by actions to seize their livestock. Most Britons agree that the 1925 rates should have been scaled down before Parliament adjourned (TIME, Aug. 7), but the Lords & Commons went home without facing the issue. Last week for the first time an aristocrat popped up among England's tithe-embattled farmers. Horsy and determined Lady Evelyn Balfour is a niece of the late, great Lord Balfour who died a bachelor and left his title to her father, the present Earl Balfour. Last week pretty Lady Evelyn was among a crowd of more...
...characteristics which Hollywood most prizes he has been almost as much of a problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Critic Young anticipated. So far he has been a tongue-tied torpedo launch lieutenant in Today null a hero-worshipping secretary in Gabriel Over the White House ; and, currently, an aristocrat with indecision. Nonetheless, in parts which have had none of the richness of his stage roles, he has given three performances each of which possessed a shade more than the mechanical competence which Hollywood demands of subsidiary performers. Son of Frank Jerome Tone, president of Carborundum Co., Franchot Tone went...
Count Nicolas has had an adventurous and egocentric life, whose parts do not always fit neatly together. A wild young aristocrat in pre-War Russia, leading a riotous life as an officer in the Tsar's "Horses' Guards" and moving in very "hyg" society, he was also a Nihilist who fled to Paris, was extradited and sent to Siberia. Describing himself as "the Don Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity...