Word: belgravia
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...suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant tongue, and with it, a noise less associated with Belgravia than The Bronx...
...rides around London on a fancy green eight-speed-gear bicycle. Once, when he flew back from a U.S. trip, his wife met him at London Airport. To make up for the exercise he had missed in America, they tramped the 15 miles home. Their fine Georgian mansion in Belgravia has a two-way frontdoor microphone, three dining rooms, and a $7,000 kitchen where Marples cooks midnight snacks for fellow Ministers ("After all, cooking's no art-merely applying heat to food...
...Bishop of Stortford, who denounces Cocktail Time ("obscene, immoral, shocking, impure, corrupt, shameless, graceless and depraved") from the pulpit of Belgravia's St. Jude the Resilient. "All over the sacred edifice you could see eager men jotting the name down on their shirt cuffs...
Born in London but always an American citizen, Mr. Eyre is often taken for an Englishman. His speech has a decided Belgravia drollery to it, and it is his habit to dress in British haberdashery. "My father has a curious theory that it is wrong not to live in one's country, yet that one must never identify oneself with it. Hence, I'm as British as possible, though, of course, his theory is all wrong...
...captured. A non-practicing lawyer, he has an income from investments of more than $50,000 a year; his wife's is even higher. A stranger to all sports, he superintends a four-man gardening crew at his Bedfordshire estate, grows flowers in the courtyard of his Belgravia house. Colonials of all creeds, colors and classes stream in to the Lennox-Boyds' frequent house parties...