Word: aristocratism
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Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C. J. P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric who displays all the instincts of the aristocrat and no trace of the gentleman...
Author Percy, a natural writer, has a rare talent for making his people, Negro, Jew or Southern aristocrat, look and sound as though they were being seen and heard for the first time by anyone...
...These canvas Lolitas have aroused much arch speculation, which Balthus turns aside by jokingly pointing out that he was born in a leap year, and that "having had only twelve birthdays, I may consider myself only twelve years old." Outwardly, this man of twelve is every inch the worldly aristocrat who can converse brilliantly, if somewhat distractedly, in French, Italian, German and English. He is the most painstaking of artists: he may require as many as 40 sittings for a portrait, turns out only about five new canvases a year...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C.J.P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric whose life displays all the imperious instincts of the aristocrat without an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman...
...Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman. Snake Man neatly blends action and memory, talk and adventure, snake lore and Ionides lore...