Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli-Curci." (TIME, Nov. 15). Declared Walter Damrosch: "If I continue broadcasting one orchestra for two years only...
...Helen Bond, a member no doubt of the Junior League. He appears in expensive cafés, twirling his native lasso, topped with a wide-brimmed sombrero, upholstered in furry, wild-West leg-clothes, a sight for any romantic heifer. Helen's aunt snubs him in her most patrician manner until a group of nobles inform him that he is, in reality, the long-lost heir to the throne of Eldorado. Much against his democratic inclinations, he kings it for a while over "that Eldorado tribe," mangling the traditions, making love to his Helen, and lording it over...
Stooping Patrician...
...Times cracked its joke, amazing because so unexpected, about Fannie Brice's nose three years ago† something that was again evident when, last summer, the Times departed from its rule against "features" and began printing the labored wit of Funnyman Will Rogers (TIME, Aug. 16). The Times, patrician of the press, was stooping to the popular...
...sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King Emperor. Soon Commoner Cohn will wreck his new-bought house-once the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury-will erect on its patrician site an apartment hotel...