Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Headmaster. With Rahab, Walsingham, Richelieu, Fouche, Stieber and Mata Hari, Allen Welsh Dulles has little in common except his job. A tall, husky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) man who wears rimless spectacles and conservative clothes. Allen Dulles is an unmistakable product of that nearly extinct patrician society which dominated New York and New England before World War I. With his booming laugh, bouncy enthusiasm, and love of competitive sports, Dulles is uncannily reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt. He has the young-old look of a college student made up as Daddy Long Legs in the class play...
...house in which some Contradese girl cried her heart out because her family lacked money for a dowry. Contradese parents soon learned to come running when they heard the crack of Silvio's whip, for it meant that he had come with a dowry fit for a patrician. "I know the bitter humility impoverished youth is made to feel in Contrada," he would...
...roles, as Casca, the conspiracy's hatchet man. In the vital role of Brutus, James Mason gives an intense, brooding performance that effectively combines the poetic and the prosaic. Greer Garson and Deborah Kerr, as Caesar's wife Calpurnia and Brutus's wife Portia, are decoratively patrician, but have little to do in roles that are virtually bits...
Adams is a good patrician name in Boston. But John Quincy Adams was rediscovered last summer at the northernmost tip of U.S. territory--Point Barrow, Alaska...
Conant's election came as a complete shock to the outside world and as a surprise to many of his associates on the Faculty. He was no "wonder-boy," no "out-spoken leader," no "prominent Harvard professor," no "scion of a patrician Boston family." He was an excellent chemist, so good, in fact, that a friend couldn't understand why he would abandon his post to accept the presidency. "My sense of adventure, I guess," he said...