Word: aristocratism
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When more Louisiana petitions kept arriving this week in the Senate, it became clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local...
...haunts him as it did Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than the joyous throngs who idled down the years after the first Versailles, unconscious that their house was tottering to its final destruction...
That pleasant young man Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, had something to do last week. As 16th Duke of Norfolk and 27th Earl of Arundel, His Grace is the Premier Duke & Earl of the entire peerage. He is the British aristocrat. Beside the Ducal House of Norfolk, the Royal House of Windsor is an upstart. Last week His Grace the Duke of Norfolk was informed that a cinema theatre at Stirling, Scotland was flying not the Union Jack but the ancient flag of Scotland, boldly flaunting the Lion Rampant...
...killed in an explosion on the Kettle Valley railway, as you mention. The employes who have been running that line for many years knew him well. When one mentions him to any of them a gleam of admiration will appear. "Ah, there was a gentleman and an aristocrat...
...made the most of the princely presents he gave her: a house in Pall Mall, a generous allowance, two sons. The King found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never hit it off very well: when it came to backchat Louise was no match for her. Once Nell's coach was held up in Oxford by a threatening mob who thought Louise was inside. Nell...