Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bored with it and travel. On a voyage between Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn (TIME, June 27, 1927) he heralded from South Africa. Bambi (TIME, July 23) he praised because it had minimized the rough tedium...
...never was any likelihood that Tammany would support me." The chief significance of "bolts" lies in the volume of votes which they may involve. The volume they represent is a less ponderable matter, especially when the bolter is out of office. Mr. Owen, part Cherokee Indian, is mostly Virginia patrician. He was born and educated in Virginia. He went to Oklahoma, with which State his name has long been connected, when he was still young and the region was a Territory. He grew potent, first as an Indian agent, then as one of Oklahoma's first U. S. Senators...
Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
Vicomte Alain de Leche, France's young patrician poet, gave way to generalities about women before boarding the Majestic. German women . . . "wear too much glasses, are either Hausfraus or adventuresses." French women . . . "are too calculating." British women . . . "love sports too well, are developed only physically." American women . . . "are intoxicating, but oh! so intoxicated, I am shocked. I am disgusted. I shall never marry an American." But M. le Vicomte could be generous: "I liked Indians, cowboys, Charlie Chaplin...
...Mellon suite conferences on drafting Coolidge continued to a negative conclusion. Next day, when Secretary Mellon endorsed Hoover at the Pennsylvania caucus and Boss Vare got a resolution passed alleging his right to a seat in the Senate,f newsmen snorted abusively that the Pittsburgh patrician's course had been dictated by the Philadelphia politician, that Secretary Mellon had been timid and vacillating, that his control of Pennsylvania was a myth, that Boss Vare was Boss indeed and that Hooverism had Boss Vare to thank for its deciding boost. As added evidence of the supremacy of Vare over Mellon...