Word: nob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some did-but not one nob. That night, the dejected Ward summoned a Daily Express reporter to a friend's apartment and poured out his bitterness. "This," said he, "has been a political revenge trial. Someone had to be sacrificed, and it was me. One or two people can still vindicate me, but when the Establishment wants blood, you can't wriggle...
...story begins, the pretty ragazza is running away from her bandleader boy friend with a highborn brat who promises to make her a movie star. After five days of fun and games, the young nob suddenly gets bored, takes what the Italians call English leave. Furious, the girl pursues him, finds out where he lives, rings his doorbell. Appalled, the playboy tells his 16-year-old brother (Jacques Perrin) to answer the door and get rid of the dame. But the boy is everything big brother is not: innocent, sensitive, idealistic. He is horrified at his brother's subhumanity...
...Pleasure of His Company (Paramount) is requested at the wedding of Miss Debbie Reynolds to Mr. Tab Hunter at Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco. Because the requested company is that of debonair Fred Astaire, playboy father of the bride, there is bound to be some bounce. And with Lilli Palmer, Fred's ex-wife and the bride's mother, handling the arrangements, one can expect grace and polish. But otherwise, it is a Nytol nuptial. Where the 1958 Broadway play (by Samuel Taylor "with" Cornelia Otis Skinner) set in motion a sea of social-comedy soap bubbles...
...gentleman in the manhole (Jack Hawkins) turns out to be Lieut. Colonel J.G.N. Hyde, Retd., of the War Office, an impecunious nob who feels that his capacities for command were never adequately recognized in Her Majesty's service. To restore both purse and pride he decides to organize a paramilitary operation of his own. Objective: a bank. A riffle through the army's records discovers seven competent but crooked officers and other ranks (Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terrence Alexander, Norman Bird)-all cashiered out, all out of cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece...
...According to one version, it was the custom for sons of the British nobility to sign Oxford college registers fit. nob. - short for filius nobilis, son of a nobleman - and they were hence known as "nobs." Those who had no such claim but liked to associate with the aristocracy became known as quasi nobs, hence "snobs...