Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifth in Line. If the prospective father was beaming, the chroniclers of Britain's blueblood lines were cracking their knuckles. The offspring will be fifth in line in succession to the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and its mother. But since children take title from the father, the child will be born a commoner. The possibility that agitated royalists: Britain's throne might some day be occupied by somebody called Mr. (or Miss) Jones...
...alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf set his foot down, insisted that Astrid marry some true blueblood. In fast succession. Astrid turned her nose up at a series of princelings who could not distinguish between the stern and the spinnaker. Meanwhile, frustrated Suitor Ferner drifted into a marriage with an Oslo model, but by 1956 he was divorced and once again afloat with Astrid. They won many...
...frosty-faced, warmhearted, 6-ft. 5-in. Boston blueblood (and cousin of G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge), John Moors Cabot lost a job once because he just as bluntly urged that his country give more to Latin America. Two weeks before the 1954 Inter-American Conference in Venezuela, he clashed with the late Secretary of State Dulles and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, who believed that private investment should provide most of the money in Latin America. At the time, Cabot was already warning of "hard, ugly facts" in Latin America: "The peoples to the south...
...closer to home. It was the story of a popular writer, a Harvard graduate, reacting against the decadence and futile ancestor worship of his tumble-down New England family. And if the hero had the unmistakable air of the author himself-the pipe-smoking, tweedy, dressed-by-Brooks-Brothers blueblood-the hero's family was also unquestionably Marquand...