Word: patrician
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...routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department has expanded from an obscure to almost the central department of U. S. government...
...Bernardin is a young clergyman of scholarly and social graces, educated at Yale and at the patrician Magdalen College, Oxford. The young headmaster of the cathedral's choir school, Rev. William Dudley Foulkes Hughes, an especial protege of Bishop Manning's, also is an Oxford man, but he attended the quite plebeian Hertford College there. Nevertheless, as bishop's friend, Mr. Hughes was able to irritate Dean's Assistant Bernardin. At last Mr. Bernardin could stand no more and resigned, preferring charges against Mr. Hughes...
Under Pope Leo XIII Merry del Val was Master of the Robes and Privy Chamberlain, and one of the youngest members of the papal household. He had ample exercise for his patrician tastes. He liked horses, liked dancing; he was an excellent shot. In ecclesiastical matters however he was not widely known. And when the new pope, Pius X, in his emergency, selected Merry del Val as ProSecretary of State the decision came as a distinct shock...
Keystone Aircraft Corp. Bristol, Pa. / Pathfinder, Puffer / Passenger & military / . . . . . . . . . . .Special / Patrician, world's largest plane; accidently burned. Crop dusting by plane...
...load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...