Word: brahmin
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...contrast, while Harvard has been a Boston institution since its Puritan beginnings, the local accent has never caught on here. Instead, Harvard has historically embraced the more decadent, waspish ethos of the Boston Brahmin elite. We live in a land of regattas and finals clubs—far more John Forbes Kerry than Will Hunting. If there is an accent that has defined Harvard over the years, it is one of haughty pretension that characterizes the sermons of Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...views.A BLUE-BLOOD CRIMSONITETed McKinney ’60, who lived a floor above the judge during their freshman year, said Sprague was a focused student with conservative tendencies. Fellow classmate Foley Vaughn ’60 wrote in an e-mail that Sprague was “very Brahmin,...not a man of the people.” McKinney recalled Sprague and his roommates’ consternation over an impromptu hockey match held in McKinney’s Mower Hall suite, where a crushed beer can served as the puck and the fireplace as the goal...
When Thee died of cancer at age 46, Theodore, then 19, was overcome by grief, but within a year he fell in love with a Brahmin beauty named Alice Lee, who found his stories of hunting in the Maine woods charming. Just before they wed in the fall of 1880, he went West to hunt with his brother Elliott. He hoped life in a saddle and breathing the open air all day would build up his strength once more. On the trail, he fell in love again, this time with the American West...
...Highway 92, a distance of about three miles. That is the route that Ladd says 200 to 300 illegals take every night as they enter the U.S. They punch holes in the barbed-wire border fence and then tear up the many fences intended to separate the breeding cattle--Brahmin, Angus and Hereford--that divide the Ladd land...
Raised in the lowly confines of South Boston, Lydia goes to work in an upscale department store, where she meets medical student Henry Wickett, the neurasthenic scion of a Brahmin family. The two soon marry. With a newfound robustness that he attributes to Lydia's love, Henry decides to chuck his studies and create an elixir to combat loneliness. He intends its curative powers to result from encouraging letters he includes with the product rather than any medicinal properties of the liquid. The remedy is only mildly successful, but it attracts a business partner, Quentin Driscoll, who envisions turning...