Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
After two days of peering & poring-first over the school figures (which count two-thirds toward determining a champion.) and then the free skating (which counts a third)-the judges gravely voted. To the surprise of no one in inner skating circles, 18-year-old Blueblood Joan Tozzer, daughter of Harvard's Anthropology Professor Alfred M. Tozzer, won the women's senior title for the third year...