Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been called a monument to graft. The yellow diamond, en circled by gold from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...worried at the charge of snobbery. Class-consciousness, particularly in England, has been so much inflamed nowadays that to mention a nobleman is like mentioning a prostitute 60 years ago. The new prudes say: 'No doubt such people do exist but we would sooner not hear about them.' I reserve the right to deal with the kind of people I know best...
...celebrated man who, betrayed by his wife and best friend, masochistically underscores his humiliation by becoming a circus clown named Funny. Most of the others in the circus, he soon learns, are unhappy too. Funny (Dennis King) falls in love with a charming, childlike little bareback rider whose depraved nobleman of a "father" is on the point of marrying her off to a rich, lecherous baron. When he finds he cannot stop the marriage, Funny, with considerable fanfare, poisons himself and the girl...
...messenger was Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish nobleman, Boy Scout enthusiast and general do-gooder who married U.S. Heiress Estelle Manville (Johns-Manville asbestos) in 1928. Recently he had been living near Hamburg, representing the Swedish Red Cross...
...parents, both singers, had been killed in a train wreck. She was different from the Danes, gay and dreamy; Rolls fell in love with her. But Selina soon subdued her. After a few years, life with the Danes became intolerable for Lark. She ran away and married an Italian nobleman...