Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. readers the plight of modern royalty, striving to preserve royal hauteur while controlling squabbling politicians, is closer to high comedy than to tragedy. But to Author Charles d'Ydewalle, Belgian journalist and intimate friend of the late King Albert, the career of at least one modern monarch can properly be termed tragic. In another period of the world's history Albert might have reigned at peace with his subjects, won fame as an intellectual who had studied Marx, Machiavelli, Taine, kept up with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand...
...breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus we expect hauteur in the King Charles spaniel, conrage in Scottish terrier, selfishness in the Pekingese, and gentleness in the St. Bornard, Man does not yet know the dog however, for two of his most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge...
...August, birth control proving totally impractical, XX high power buckshot was resorted to by his henchmen in their valiant fight. As a result of this drastic action the Yard has remained an habitable region, although the former amicable attitude of the squirrels has given way to one of hauteur and strained reserve--rarely talented indeed will be the member of the Class of 1938 who makes any lasting friends among the four footed denizens of the Yard...
...sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under so many names, that he cannot step completely and instantly out of his most famed role. His hauteur, his bandy-legged walk, his hawk nose and his sloping shoulders suit a proud, gererous, clever banker even better than they do a British prime minister. After this picture the chances are even that most cinemaddicts will think of him in terms of Rothschild rather than of Disraeli...
...very British. The breadth of his shoulders is accentuated by a neck long yet not too long. Smooth and pink, the face of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs takes on at will an innocent, babyish expression, flashes his "lightning smile" or congeals into withering hauteur. Throughout the Empire "John," as his few intimates call him, is famed as Britain's most highly remunerated barrister. Slow in walk and gesture he is lightning quick of mind and he is tireless. Last week he became Chairman of the League of Nations preparatory commission which will organize...