Word: bluebloods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Being a non-politician has been helpful to many candidates, and William Weld, the pluperfect blueblood who won the Republican primary to oppose Silber in November, also played that card. His opponent, Steven Pierce, the house minority leader, matched Bellotti's shopworn look. The record turnout of Bay State voters demonstrated the public's tendency to turn on state officials with more wrath than it shows to members of Congress in troubled times. The culpability of federal lawmakers is more easily hidden. That explains why, in addition to Dukakis, nine other Governors are voluntarily retiring this year...
...Democrats jabbed at their Republican counterparts as wealthy, blueblood Yankees, the Republicans countered with jokes about the Irish and the state's fiscal mess, and candidates hoping to make a splash at the event took aim at their opponents in both parties...
WHITE MISCHIEF. The African sun sets British blueblood sizzling in a steamy adaptation of James Fox's chronicle of decadence and murder in the Kenyan colony...
...crisis soon arose. Harvard, for reasons that still befuddle many a blueblood, began to grow more lenient in its admission policy. Strange new men populated this formerly sacred ground--the strangest of whom, because of their bumpy body shapes and high pitched voices, became known pejoratively as "women...
...piece of writing. I'm quite an avid reader and don't recall a better-written article depicting my midwestern idea of the Harvard mind. You certainly hit "the nail on the head," and gave me a chance to laugh at myself and my own attitudes toward the eastern blueblood...