Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives are not made the subject of Negro literature, Mr. Hughes...
While Mr. Lloyd George was Premier (1916-22), numerous nouveau-peers were reputedly grateful to him, in cash and in advance, for whatever influence he may have exercised toward their creations. A high-minded statesman, Mr. Lloyd George naturally did not touch a penny or pound of this grateful gold. It was all voluntarily contributed to a curious "war chest" (campaign fund)-curious because Mr. Lloyd George retains to this day absolute control of more than ?1,000,000 in "almightie gold." Last week the little Welshman went shopping. None cried: Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a thief...
...shortest and most august in London's West End. Every house on the street is the property of a peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman...
...annum of advertising. And so a miracle had happened in Georgia. An aristocrat, a South-ener, had beaten modern industry. "Merchant Prince of the South," they called him; "First Citizen of Atlanta." He accepted his honors gravely. Why should he have been flustered ? He was not a nouveau; his was no rags-to-riches story but the far rarer reversal by which blood wins back, in a world of commerce, the position it owned in a world of pioneering...
...Turkish ship Bozkourd. Simultaneously it was announced that M. Emile Daeschner, onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. will be despatched shortly to succeed M. Albert Sarraut as French Ambassador to Turkey. M. Daeschner will be the first Ambassador to occupy the new French Legation at the nouveau capital of Turkey, Angora, a town still chiefly com posed...