Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moore got Crump's sentence commuted to 199 years. Still in debt, he has switched to lawyering for the Justice Department's Criminal Division in Washington. Says he: "I feel lucky, going broke on the things I did." - Chicago's Walter Fisher, 73, a patrician partner in a patrician law firm, was asked by the Supreme Court in 1956 to represent Illinois Indigent Alphonse Bartkus in a classic double-jeopardy case. Charged with bank robbery, Bartkus had been acquitted in a federal court-then convicted of the same crime in a state court. Fisher soon produced...
...Call Me Madam Secretary." During the following twelve years-the era of New Deal reform, unprecedented labor strife and the huge demands of World War II-the tricorn hat, the patrician Boston accent and the impassioned air of the social worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...
...columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...Bullyboy. Selma is a city of 29,500 people-14,400 whites, 15,100 Negroes. Its voting rolls are 99% white, 1% Negro. More than a city, Selma is a state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." In Selma, Negroes are supposed to know their place. A Selma ordinance of 1852 declared that "any Negro found upon the streets of the city smoking a cigar or pipe or carrying a walking cane must be on conviction punished with 39 lashes"-and the place has not changed...
Howard Cutler, as the poet type, Louis Flax, only whined and slouched and looked pained. And Patrician Hawkins made of Stella Dean no more than a chaste version of Louis; she even slouched the same...