Word: nabobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government knew the coup attempt was being plotted, but hardly anybody took it seriously. Shortly before 2 a.m. one day last week, Dr. T. Alcibíades Espinosa, a gynecologist and nabob of a small, far-right group with almost no support among the military, marched into the National Historical Archives Building in the inland city of Santiago, followed by a corporal's guard of 60 men armed with machetes, baseball bats and a few ancient rifles...
Died. Wilbur Clark, 56, Las Vegas innkeeper and sometime craps dealer who parlayed tips and gambling earnings into the Green Shack, pioneer Las Vegas gambling house of 1938, and became a full-fledged Nevada nabob in 1950 when he opened his gaudy, $4 million Desert Inn which, increasingly, he ran as a front for a group of sometime Cleveland gamblers; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif...
Rolls-Royce gets under way in high style when Rex Harrison, as a British Foreign Office nabob, goes out to buy a motorized bauble for his wife (Jeanne Moreau). "I don't much care for the shape of the decanter," Harrison purrs, eying the built-in bar accessories. He has the automobile delivered during a party on Ascot eve, and Veteran Director Anthony Asquith (The V.l.P.s) begins scratching through the smooth surfaces of leisure-class life with exquisite malice. At dinner, Moreau arranges a tryst with one of Harrison's subordinates (Edmund Purdom), masking her passion with some...
...Breed Apart. As the son of one of the richest men in the U.S.-and a millionaire in his own right on his 21st birthday-he might well have become a minted conservative. But the Kennedys were a breed apart: Father Joe Kennedy was a Wall Street nabob and a man of many reactionary convictions, yet he swallowed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal whole. Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain on the eve of war, he broke emphatically with Roosevelt on the issue of U.S. involvement in World War II. In the salad days of the New Deal, Jack...