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This Puritan disdain for ostentation is a cherished tradition. After all, Thomas Paine penned Common Sense hoping to liberate Americans from the grip of ostentatious English aristocrats. In fact, the most poignant lesson in U.S. history teaches that today's Horatio Alger (see Andrew Carnegie) is tomorrow's robber baron (see Andrew Carnegie)--unless, of course, the baron performs a useful public service, such as owning a pro sports team or three, like 60-year-old Ted Turner, who also recently gave a billion dollars to the United Nations for humanitarian causes. Turner was following the tradition of the Astors...
...legendary for forcing guests at his estate to use a pay phone, and H.L. Hunt (1889-74), who every day either brought his lunch to work in a paper sack or, when not feeling quite so flush, cadged his secretary's sandwich. Less well known was oil and cattle baron James ("Silver Dollar Jim") West (1903-57). Wearing a diamond-encrusted Texas Ranger's badge and hunched behind the wheel of one of his 30 automobiles, West loved to race alongside Houston police in pursuit of evildoers, throwing handfuls of silver dollars to startled onlookers as he sped...
...Baron von Thayer...
...things in perspective for you, Baron von Thayer, just for a second, before I address your very legitimate concern. You're 18 or 19 and you've been in this relationship for at most seven weeks. Now tell me: how serious is your relationship? In any case, blocking is a messy process. So is dating. When you put those two things together, you guessed it! A big mess...
...Baroness Jay, the Labour government's leader of the Lords, Britain's 700 hereditary peers are about to get the chop. Twenty-one generations of Lord Fauntleroys influencing the affairs of the nation will come to an end. They will continue to have the right to call themselves Baron this and the Earl of that, and so will their firstborn sons. But they will no longer be admitted to the gold-and-crimson chamber of the upper house of Parliament...