Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whoever wrote this book (and it must have been a woman) is capable of endowing synthetic images with all the tangibility of unsatisfactory reality. The senile Earl, convinced that she is some patrician Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington...
...business. . . ." To put 50 per cent of one's takings back into an enterprise is unusual; 95 per cent is phenomenal. Few men would do it. Yet this has been the policy of Adolph Ochs publisher, executed by Louis Wiley, business manager. Publisher Ochs is a grave, patrician gentleman, with a bland hand and a judicial eye. His name is the only exclamatory thing about him. He presents an assurance of stability, a hint of qualities that take capitals, an implication of old-worldness, of principles, even, that seem oddly exotic in a world where tinsel is the mode...
...looking for the handsomest man at Harvard for Moving Pictures," writes Miss Webster. "I want a leading man, not a juvenile. It will be a marvelous career. He must be tall and patrician looking, the very best type...
...pointedly omitted from Mrs. Harriman's exhibition. So has that of a good many famed Englishmen and Frenchmen. But although the omissions in this, as in every other international exhibition, will lead to discussion, possibly even to ill-feeling, not even the disgruntled artists themselves could question the patrician disinterestedness of a lady who is one of the most noted sponsors of good art in this country. She was helped in choosing the American artists by Marius de Zayas, art dealer; the English by Ambrose McEvoy and Augustus E. John; the French by Camille Mauclair, critic. At the time...
...Harvard state of mind has been characterized as one of 'indifference.' So it is. It represents a rather patrician lack of concern for other people's affairs...