Word: patrician
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same evening George Dandin, Molière's sophisticated trifle of the uncouth husband who was hoodwinked by his philandering, patrician wife, is revived prettily in a good English translation. But all its antic graces cannot hide the fact that it is a gilded potboiler. It is done in the mode of that simpering, formal period when Truth was nothing and an attitude everything...
Nancy Ann. The titular character is a young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy Ann's state of perennial flutter...
...after all, even with its modern methods the University is much the same. There are the same half-bewildered Freshmen, the same very sophisticated Sophomores admiring the world from their boarding-house porches, or if their tastes are less patrician from corners and drug-stores on Massachusetts Avenue, the same athletes "taking it around the Stadium" on the same hot and moisty September afternoons. All is very much the same, but a new year is upon...
...first shore visit was at Vancouver, B. C. As the Henderson approached the port an aeroplane of the Royal Canadian Air Force brought the President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...Kohlsaat has been for thirty years a journalist, publisher, politician-behind-scenes. He has been one of the more engaging if less dynamic personalities in Chicago's rush toward eminence. Now he has written a book.* Charles Scribner, patrician publisher, is selling it by the thousands, although George Horace Lorimer had already printed most of it in the Saturday Evening Post...