Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When liberty seemed mainly the preoccupation of a few French philosophers and the dissident American colonials, a millionaire nobleman called Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, gave up his title and pledged his sword to make room for it on the earth. With that pledge and sword, he won a secure place in the pantheon of American heroes. What the French think of him is a more complicated matter. As depicted by his most recent biographers, Maurice de la Fuye and Emile Babeau. the French hero of U.S. schoolboys was himself a schoolboy...
Married. Countess Emanuela Castel-barco, 19, blonde granddaughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Duke Gian Luigi Acquarone, 32, wealthy Italian nobleman; in Milan, Italy...
...olden daze into which Hollywood falls so often and so profitably. Danny is cast as a song-and-dance man at the court of a wicked king (Cecil Parker), but in reality Danny is nobody's fool. He is the secret agent of the Black Fox, a nobleman who hides in the forest like some robbing hood. With him hides the true king, still an infant, for whom the Black Fox plans to seize the power...
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, another philosophic piece, was touched only by tedium. The setting is a desolate swamp where for eternity two hoboes talk about how bored they are. They are waiting, as you might suspect, for Godot, a nobleman who will bring salvation from their misery. During the evening, three symbols of humanity stroll past, Godot never appears and the dialogues about boredom become more persuasive by the minute. Even allowing for the innovations in technique, I found Godot on evening of baggy-pants comedy and penny-dreadful philosophy with little power, wit, or charm...
From Soap to Beer. One nobleman wrote Vicki: "I am prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they...