Word: patrician
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...slightest difference whether a great family took part in the Crusades or not," said aristocratic Count Emmanuel de Las Cases. "It is still a great family." But very few French aristocrats were able last week to put so brave a front on the matter. The fact was that the patrician pedigrees of 250 aristocratic families had just had a great fall...
Thus Austrian Author Lernet-Holenia, 59, himself patrician-born and a former officer of the Imperial Austrian Army, elliptically describes how a ruling class shorn of its power can be startled by phantoms and into fantasies. Yet, in sum, his talent is special, minor, and eccentric -fit literary fare perhaps only for devotees of what might be called seance fiction...
...Armstrong, whose galvanic Blow, Gabriel, Blow undoubtedly jazzed up CBS's ratings. Best numbers: You Do Something to Me, ravishingly sung by Dorothy Dandridge: Sanders and bosomy Dolores Gray seductively sighing Let's Do It; and a bit of frail Cole Porter himself singing in clipped, patrician tones a few bars of Well, Did You Evah? ("What a swell party this is"). Though obviously pleased with his swell party, Porter himself seemed to feel the absence of his oldtime stars. Offstage, he sighed wistfully: "I miss them...
...Canadian politics ever looked the part of a Prime Minister more completely-or wanted the job more earnestly-than handsome, patrician George Alexander Drew, 62. After resigning as Premier of Ontario in 1948 to take over as national leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Drew fought hard through two national election campaigns. But the Liberals, who combined a New Dealish program of social reform with a hard-headed regard for balanced budgets, rolled over the Tories for their fourth and fifth straight national victories, relegating Drew to the gadfly role of Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons...
...good deal of the screenplay seems as dated today as the idle rich. Grace Kelly sings a duet with Crosby in a cool, innocuously pleasant little voice, does an alcoholic rumba with Sinatra, and looks thoroughly patrician, but she lacks the gawky animal energy that Katharine Hepburn brought to the 1939 play and the 1941 movie. Crosby seems as comfortable in the role of a singing millionaire as only a singing millionaire (which he is in real life) can be. but saunters through the part rather sleepily, without much of the old Bing zing. Sinatra plays the reporter like...