Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successor to the often mercurial Evans, a product of the working class, Murdoch chose an irreproachably Tory blueblood: Times Deputy Editor Charles Douglas-Home, 44, a nephew of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Home. Douglas-Home was schooled at Eton and served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment...
...sowed were strewn from coast to coast and across an ocean. But he tired of that in due course. He could not abide the second rate--not in horses, not in paintings, not in wines, not in clothes, not in women, not in anything. "For Kahn, greenbacks keep the blueblood circulating...
...then and gets to meet with emissaries from second-rate allies, but not much more. It's obvious he'd jump at the chance to run his own show as Yankee manager, and Steinbrenner could improve his credentials in East Coast high society by hanging out with a blueblood...