Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are first shown as a Boston Brahmin couple giving a family party on their golden wedding day. Though pretty messy for the family, things are golden for the Lunts. Then the play wanders sentimentally back across the years, offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and extramarital complications. Alfred, for whom every age proves a dangerous age, is incurably romantic and roving. Lynn, facing one ticklish domestic situation after another, knows the wise wife's formula for holding her husband: never a cross word and always a puzzle...
They say that Curley uses a different side of his mouth for either side of Beacon Hill. In his hey-day, he had the cultured charm in his voice of the highest rank of Brahmin, yet, on the same night, he could go across the Hill to the North End and deliver a spirited, rabble-rousing speech that would practically incite whole national groups to riot. There wasn't anyone who Curley couldn't sell in Boston. He could as easily convince the millionaire Robert White to leave his money to the city for health improvements, as line up ward...
What Bell Wrought. At 73, Editor Grosvenor is a frail-looking, energetic man with a neat white mustache, a Phi Beta Kappa key and the manner of a Boston Brahmin. Grosvenor was born (with a twin brother now dead) in Constantinople, where his father was a professor at Robert College. Fittingly enough, from his nursery window the future geographer could see two continents...
...easy to pollute a Hindu temple. Even a Brahmin can do it by entering a temple within ten days after the birth of his child, or if he has had a haircut and goes in before taking a bath. Until recently, when a civil law eased the ban, Untouchables could pollute a temple just by blundering beyond the main gate...
...years, Bostonians had come to boast of their Russian-born conductor as their grandparents once boasted of Emerson or Dr. Holmes. He was a welcome autocrat at any Brahmin table, and when his concerts were over, Boston dowagers liked to flock backstage to kiss and be kissed on both cheeks...