Word: patrician
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...candidate of the No Deal Party was patrician Newbold Morris, president of the City Council and protege of Mayor LaGuardia (who is a member of the American Labor Party). No Deal Candidate Morris said that he was actually a Willkie Republican. He is also a Yaleman, socialite and good-government career man, who told the voters that his rivals had reached eminence through sordid political deals. Yet his opponents accused him of making a deal with LaGuardia-perhaps for such a sordid purpose as taking votes from Judge Goldstein...
...they could not find a dyed-in-the-wool GOPster, were confronted with a choice between two Democrats. They picked one Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, onetime secretary to Al Smith. In so doing, they lost the services of the top Republican in city politics, Council President Newbold Morris, a patrician socialite who believes in government as a career. Cracked Newbold Morris: "[Judge Goldstein] thinks he can buy the good government label like a new collar. You've got to earn it through the years. It comes after trial by fire...
...Grey, patrician Charles Wilson, Baron Moran, President of the Royal College of Physicians, is well qualified for this inquiry. Winner of the Military Cross as a medical officer of the Royal Fusiliers in World War I, he notes that "the Prime Minister . . . has taken me where I might learn from those who are doing the fighting" in World War II. The Anatomy of Courage, recently published in London, is composed largely of a series of sketches from life, mostly in World War I. ¶ A malingering old colonel once came to Moran pleading dysentery ("I'm afraid...
...crippled legs who stood before them, tightly gripping the rostrum, on that cloud-hung, windy March 4 in 1933. They had not voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...
...Tomorrow (Paramount), Alan Ladd's first picture since his discharge from the Army, presents Loretta Young as a deaf New England mill-town patrician and Mr. Ladd as the doctor who works to cure her deafness. Her deafness is figurative as well as literal. In its literal aspect, being merely the result of meningitis and the despair of specialists the world over, it offers no insuperable difficulty. Figuratively, it is a more stubborn case...