Word: aristocratism
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...setting befits William Zantzinger's status as a rural aristocrat. His father, a former member of the Maryland house of delegates and the state planning commission, still lives in the mansion, where he and his wife entertain in convivial country style. William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields. William is unlike many a gentleman farmer. His farming success is due not to the efficiency of hired supervisors, but to the long hours of gritty, grubby work he himself does afield. But by last week...
With De Gaulle disposed of, the National Council of the Resistance planned to appoint a new head of state: none other than De Gaulle's present Finance Minister, an aristocrat named Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Protesting loudly. Giscard d'Estaing said it was all nonsense, that he had never even met Bastien-Thiry and had no links with either the Secret Army or the Council of the Resistance...
...King Here?" But last week the long-forgotten chats of the Duke of Coburg were making headlines in London newspapers as the German aristocrat was revealed also as a special emissary sent by Hitler to Britain because of his familial connections with the royal family...
Died. Erik Scavenius, 85, Denmark's puppet Prime Minister during the Nazi occupation; in Copenhagen. An arrogant aristocrat, he greeted the Germans with the statement that Hitler had "stricken the world with astonishment and admiration," formed a Danish Free Corps to fight the Russians, and remained in power until 1943, when the Nazis were forced to appoint a military governor; his explanation was that he collaborated to spare his country from Nazi terror, and though he did not go to prison, his countrymen never forgave...
Bernarda, newly-widowed, is a woman who though she has borne and raised five children, remains a virgin: neither love nor motherhood has touched her heart. As a petty Spanish aristocrat, she is obsessed with the duty to maintain the honor of her House by holding her daughters to eight years of strict mourning for their father. But as often happens in Lorca, the Fates, working through human passions, have decreed tragedy. The House which Bernarda must keep unstained (alba) is marked for ruin...