Word: blue-blooded
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Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was speaking before London's Constitutional Club, a blue-blood and blue-chip Tory audience which applauded him rousingly. Socialists complained that he had infringed "the rights of Her Majesty's Parliament" by airing "important policy" before a private group, but such constitutional niceties were soon submerged in debate over what his lordship...
...more important than Who's Who in the eyes of many blue-blood Britons is the deeper question : Who was who? For years, the responsibility of cataloguing the ancestors of noble families in Europe and Great Britain was shared by Saxony's famed Almanack de Gotha and Britain's Burke's Peerage.* Of the two, the Almanack was the older and more conscientious, but in 1946, the unfeeling Red army marched into Saxony and put it out of business for good, though carefully carting its presses and files off to Moscow. The burden of keeping Britain...
Lineage: Born June 28, 1920, third child, only daughter of Major John Strange Spencer-Churchill, Winston's younger brother. Father won a D.S.O. in the Boer War, died in 1947; mother, an Edwardian beauty, died in 1941. "True blue-blood," descended on her father's side from John Churchill, first Duke to Marlborough (1650-1722); on her mother's from the Earls of Abingdon (the present eighth earl is Clarissa's cousin...
...perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta (about $9,000) checking account at Carmen's disposal. An elderly and aristocratic spinster, hired to teach the new marchioness etiquette, announced with finality: "I need no legal proof to realize that Dona Maria is an authentic blue-blood...
...nephew of his predecessor and is also a blue-blood. His upswept nose and parenthetical legs will carry the hopes of thousands of Sons of the Blue today into his first Harvard-Yale contest...