Word: patrician
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...Roman-born patrician Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, bombing Rome differs from bombing any other city. The Holy Father has often lifted his voice against warfare, more than once deplored destruction from the air. But never before has the full power of papal rhetoric been turned on a specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose...
What Bill Bullitt would do among Philadelphia political muggs, how he would grapple with the sewer problem, the noisome water-such topics were much mooted by Philadelphians last week. For Bullitt is a patrician and a reformer. His family tree is ornamented by the father of George Washington, the sister of Patrick Henry, Pocahontas herself. His greatgrandfather and grandfather are civic statues...
...still eminently fit to serve his country. He holds his 6-ft.-3½-in. frame so erect that he always seems to tower. He weighs only about 20 lb. more than his best fighting weight (175). His clear blue eyes twinkle behind his pince-nez; his lean, patrician face is less wrinkled than the faces of many men 20 years younger; he has a healthy thatch of snow-white hair...
...Grey, patrician Joseph Clark Grew, erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to Japan, paid tribute last week to "one of the foremost military and naval academies in the United States." Mr. Grew referred to his own alma mater-Harvard University. He was speaking at Harvard's 292nd commencement, which was typical of 1943 commencements throughout the U.S. It was signalized chiefly by the tramp of 8,000 militarized student feet. Harvard gave only 1,115 academic degrees (against its prewar 2,500), but conferred 4,000 training certificates on Army & Navy officers, officer candidates, and Radcliffe WAVES. Only one honorary academic hood...
...threats came from minor officials, but their fine Italian handwriting looked suspiciously like that of A.F. of M.'s big boss, James C. (for Caesar) Petrillo. Ever since he became tsar of U.S. musicians, ex-Trumpeter Petrillo has considered the patrician Boston Symphony one of the chief thorns in his sensitive side. Union pressure has kept the Boston orchestra from broadcasting since 1939. Two years ago Petrillo forced RCA-Victor to stop recording the Boston Symphony, then exulted: "They're through...