Word: patrician
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...characteristic is a pathetic gratitude for small favors. It is this which causes her first mishap: a brief affair with lonely old Senator Brander who dies before he has time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a job as lady's maid in a patrician menage where the linen closets are large enough for téte-à-tétes with the chipper young son of the family. Lester Kane (Donald Cook). The romance between Lester and Jennie develops gaily enough until he goes to Chicago to manage a branch office in his father...
...committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime. In his first fortnight's performance he proved himself a worthy match for white-haired John William Davis, patrician counsel for Banker Morgan...
Ever since Eleanor Robson left the stage to marry the late rich, patrician August Belmont, she has specialized in philanthropy.* These last two years graceful, white-haired Mrs. Belmont has been the most conspicuous Unemployment Relief woman in New York. On May i she will retire. Last week, at a meeting of Jewish women, she began her valedictory speech: "If you will permit me I will be absolutely frank...
...Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses and friends were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned $7,500,000 worth of the Anaconda; his million acres in Mexico pastured 48,000 cattle; and he would have...
...doubt the patrician ladies would be delighted to see another generation of misinformed, prejudiced, plebeians, believing in a country which can do no wrong, and a noble death on the battlefield. No doubt they would like to see a curbing of those college professors whose teaching might lead to disillusionment and cynicism for a college education should contain no more than the uplifting benefits so characteristic of America's public school system Doubtless, too, this 42nd annual Continental Congress would have the fact concealed that the American Revolution was not a holy war led by the leading conservatives of their...