Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into his right cheek, has long since been more than an optical necessity, more than a symbol of a political and social heritage, like the monocle of Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 15). It is a trademark, a talisman, the badge of an intelligence which views humanity with graceful hauteur and interprets it with charm. A vegetarian, because it hurts his conscience to eat anything he might have patted, Cinemactor Arliss wears high shoes, likes slang, has never driven an automobile, hopes some day to be knighted...
...appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom a trace of Washington's fixity of purpose, his confidence in an ideal. With Washingtonian arrogance, though without Virginian hauteur, he wrote to a professor whom Mrs. Bloom had heard to say that Washington was not a great general: "Maybe he wasn't but England sent her best generals over here and he licked them. What do you make of that...
...Laszlo showed him in majestic mood, narrowed slightly by a be coming shadow, equipped with the dignity which Presidents so frequently require. His hands were white and soft upon his lap. On Mrs. Hoover's kind face matronly warmth was mingled with, but did not in fringe upon, a hauteur fitting for her station. Other faces on the walls ? solemn Andrew William Mellon, wise Elihu Root, martial John Joseph Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that the distinction of appearing on a de Laszlo canvas could only be surpassed by that of appearing on a postage stamp...
Brother of best-selling Grand Duchess (Education of a Princess) Marie, tall, fascinating Dmitri assisted Prince Felix Youssoupov to poison, shoot and drown the notorious "Black Monk" Gregory Efimovitch Rasputin. Hostesses are warned that the question "Do tell us all about it!" instantly freezes Grand Duke Dmitri into hurt hauteur...
...splendorons scene opened the ruling Princes and Maharajas of the Native States [see map] moved about greeting one another with low salaams. Each placed his hands crossed upon his breast as he bowed. All manifested proud hauteur to ward the mere civilian delegates of British India. Scorned by these in turn, two miser able delegates of India's untouchables [lowest class] scuttled to their places. All the Princes and Maharajas were gorgeously pugreed [turbaned], but all except a few were somberly, impressively clad in long ajkans [tightly-buttoned, turtlenecked black frock coats]. Overawed, Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing...