Word: patrician
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Faced with an unruly party caucus, Speaker Longworth was apt to rock back on his patrician heels and remark with ominous mildness: "Some of you won't be back here next year, and the roll call is going to show who some of them are." In a similar case, a small slit would open in Speaker Garner's cherry-red face and he would say: "There's no use fooling yourselves, boys. The old man's got four aces showing already. You can't possibly call." To face such a situation the best that Speaker...
Crotchety old women who outwit strong men have become a cinema staple. To hers (named Aunt Melissa) Miss Collier brings a patrician nose, a rattly voice and a formidable vivacity out of the fine tradition of the theatre of 30 years...
Belgium. Tall, curly-haired young King Leopold III faced the first grave crisis of his reign last week when the Catholic-Liberal Coalition Cabinet of patrician old Premier Count Charles de Broqueville was upset by that fiery anti-inflationist and anti-devaluationist Finance Minister Gustave...
...faithful to its Russian original. In the earlier sequences where young Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) goes to church with Peasant Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), before seducing her in a greenhouse. Director Rouben Mamoulian allows his fondness for his scene to delay his story. Later, when Dmitri, a bearded patrician in the jury box, again meets Katusha, a prostitute accused of murder, the class antagonism which put them where they are is carefully accented to make more impressive Dmitri's gestures of remorse. The climax, in which he gives away his lands and accompanies Katusha to prison in Siberia, possesses...
Tall, slender, patrician-looking President Bryan, 63, can match his college's ancient traditions, its new vigor. At one of the weekly gatherings in Richmond of his old, proud family, a guest once asked a prim maiden Stewart if she were descended from Scotland's royal family. "On the contrary," replied she, "the Kings of Scotland are descended from...