Word: patrician
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...columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...Bullyboy. Selma is a city of 29,500 people-14,400 whites, 15,100 Negroes. Its voting rolls are 99% white, 1% Negro. More than a city, Selma is a state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." In Selma, Negroes are supposed to know their place. A Selma ordinance of 1852 declared that "any Negro found upon the streets of the city smoking a cigar or pipe or carrying a walking cane must be on conviction punished with 39 lashes"-and the place has not changed...
Howard Cutler, as the poet type, Louis Flax, only whined and slouched and looked pained. And Patrician Hawkins made of Stella Dean no more than a chaste version of Louis; she even slouched the same...
...impulse to elegance is not confined to Manhattan but has had a different impact in different areas. Boston, where patrician families have been dressing up for years, takes it in stride...
...blonde patrician, the granddaughter of Dr. Endicott Peabody, founder of Massachusetts' Groton School. Once divorced, she is now the wife of British Investment Magnate Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree, a grandson of the original Marshall Field...