Word: patrician
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Five years ago Paul Bonynge, New York lawyer, first cousin of onetime Congressman Robert William Bonynge from Colorado, ran for the post of county judge in Long Island's suburban Nassau County. Suave, patrician Paul Bonynge candidly told his constituents even in those Prohibition days that now and then, when he wanted a drink, he took it. He was beaten. Campaigning again on a platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction...
...cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track wallows in the Kashmiri Song...
...Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter on the Federal payroll, lowans turned Republican Brookhart...
...Britons does Olympian self-satisfaction sit more easily than on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, chill, patrician Arthur Neville Chamberlain, who has given Britain three budget surpluses in succession. That for 1934-35 helped win for the Conservative Party last year's British general elections. Last week, as fiscal 1935-36 closed, Chancellor Chamberlain let it be known that he had underestimated the surplus by two-thirds, thus doing his bit to reconcile Britons to a walloping rearmament program and a possible budget deficit for 1936-37. Instead of ?5,610,000 ($28,050,000), the 1935-36 surplus...
...company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm. The patrician quality which has distinguished all her operatic heroines is Bori's own. She was born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made her debut in Italy...