Word: brahminism
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Time once called "a Boston Brahmin with a bite" urged the President to take a stronger position and to use convoys when he signed an American Defense Harvard Group resolution in April...
Francis Welch Crowninshield is a Boston Brahmin who was born in Paris of German forebears (von Kronenscheldt) and who lives in Manhattan. Says he, "I am a poor but good Crowninshield." His father was a mural painter of independent means. As editor of the late, lamented Vanity Fair Crownie made it a lively canapé-service of contemporary taste, with succulent tidbits of Noel Coward, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ring Lardner, Harold Nicolson, Edmund Wilson...
Ambassador to Mexico; Boston Brahmin Joseph C. Grew, former Ambassador to Japan; popular, top-flight Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, now in Washington...
...tall, bony-cheeked Boston brahmin arrived in India on Jan. 8. He had been entrusted by President Roosevelt with one of the most delicate diplomatic missions of the war. Always correct, hitherto adequate, William Phillips had been the last U.S. Ambassador to Italy. In India he was still called Ambassador. But at his first press conference he parried with a correct diplomatic laugh the question that all Indian nationalists were asking: "Are you an ambassador to His Majesty's Government, to the Government of India, or to the People of India...
Raman is one of the best authorities on Indian politics in the United States today. Born into an old Hindu Brahmin family of Madras and educated in both India and England, he joined Gandhi's staff at the Round Table Conferences...