Word: patriarchal
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...long character study braced with certain small sinews of plot was the author's contribution. He visualized an old man - tyrannical, wealthy, indomitable -the apoplectic patriarch whom the world recognizes as an English gentleman. He led this stubborn ruler into a shady financial transaction to insure the future of a son of his illegitimate child. He contrived to have him caught. He served him with one ast relentless dinner in which he ate sweetbreads, drank brandy, defied the doctor, died...
Thus Mr. Depew began one of those speeches that have made him America's after-dinner orator?the great postprandial patriarch of the Nation...
...Washington, D. C., the Navy Department announced the establishment, at George Washington University and at St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.), of naval reserve officers' classes, the first of their kind in the U. S. in peace time. At Clinton, N. Y.-Elihu Root, Hamilton '64, patriarch of U. S. law, delivered his annual oration to the students of Hamilton College (111 years old). Mr. Root holds the Chair of Hamilton's Board of Trustees. Said he: "Cultivate your taste to receive joy from a thing of beauty; cultivate your powers...
...celebration shall be itself an Ecumenical Council. The Rumanian and Greek Churches have given their consent ,and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople stated that he would not object since, for obvious reasons, the Council cannot be held in his palace on the Bosphorous...
Samuel Gompers, patriarch of the American Federation of Labor, has long taken the attitude that the Federation is not in politics. That stand is an ideal for which he has waged and won many bitter battles. His belief is that the Federation may justifiably recommend to its members that they vote for given policies and for given candidates on the basis of their records. He holds equally strongly that the Federation is a labor, not a political, body, that its interests would be more hurt than helped if it became identified with any party?even a Labor Party...