Word: aristocratism
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...gave her a check for $1,200 to buy dresses in Manhattan. She saved $1,000 of it. Dress was not one of her luxuries. She would walk aristocratically into a distinguished hotel wearing a rusty gown, pinned up the back, shabby, "at the elbows." She was an aristocrat, but chiefly in manner. She did not speculate with her wealth, but invested in railroads, in Standard Oil. She was of Quaker stock, which may explain her frugality, but she turned Episcopalian. She married Edward H. Green. She replied to Suffragists who requested her aid: "I do not approve of Suffrage...
Following Rakovsky, Foreign Minister George Tchitcherin, ex-aristocrat, arose to address the plebs. He was greeted with snappy applause and lusty cheers of "Long Live our Red Diplomacy!" He explained to the crowd that the treaty meant the definite ac-greeted with snappy applause and lusty Power. (Loud cheers.) He ended thus...
Scarcely a year goes by in Cambridge without the appearance of some new literary venture. Those who follow such things will remember "Alice in Cambridge", of course, and will have heard of or seen the parody of the Harvard Magazine, the "Aristocrat", and "Proictaplan", the red-ink "Gadfly", and, last year the "Eight Most Harvard Poets". And now another is added to the list...
...released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature in its least tolerant mood during the war as one of an insignificant and most unpopular minority have not made him more steadfast in his purpose...
...many colored men have there been in the U.S. Senate and who was the last??Two, the latter was Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi, who was eulogized by his colleague Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, an old-line blue-blood aristocrat of the South, as one who reflected credit upon his race, his state and the American Government...