Word: blueblooded
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Memory Book Briefly revived was one of the tabloid sensations of the '20s-the case of the late Long Island blueblood Leonard Kip Rhinelander and his Negro wife, Alice Jones. Rhinelander, claiming that she had represented herself as white, sued for annulment a month after their marriage in 1924, lost his case, got a Nevada divorce in 1929. She got an agreement from Rhinelander and his father to pay her $3,600 a year for life. The father continued the payments after the son's death in 1936, but after the father's death...
Blue-Blooded Liberal. Gil Winant is a blueblood, son of an aristocratic New Yorker who made a fortune in real estate. As a boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he was awkward, scraggly, uncouth; he concentrated on American history, barely crawled by in his other subjects. As a Princeton undergraduate, he left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
...idea of teaching moppets the basic facts of economics dawned two years ago on the fertile mind of a Boston school committeeman, Joseph Lee Jr. A Brahmin, blueblood, Harvard graduate, 40-year-old Joe Jr. is the eccentric liberal grandson of a founder of the Boston banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. and a great-great-grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, who turned down a Cabinet post as Secretary of the Navy under George Washington because he owned more ships than the Navy did. His father, the late Joe Lee Sr., was a famed humanitarian who once made a pilgrimage...
Typical of the Guard's blueblood units are the gentlemen from Philadelphia, organized in 1774 (mostly by members of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club) to help fight the British. Known simply as "the City Troop" to Philadelphians, it claims to be the oldest U. S. military organization with a record of continuous service. Membership is by election only, and its rolls are almost synonymous with the Philadelphia social register. Many of its men are descendants of the Troop's founders...
...most distinctive faces in U. S. public life belongs to Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, a Boston blueblood and Harvardman who resembles a well-worn U. S. antique. This week Massachusetts demonstrated that it liked his visage better than his opponent's, blank-faced Irish Democrat Paul A. Dever...