Word: patricianism
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...friends know that when he cups his hand to his good right ear and asks that a question be repeated he is often just stalling. And he can well make a park bench his office: he carries all the facts and principles of war economy in his patrician head...
...high-school prize composition packed with cinematic moments. It revolves about a character who may turn out to be the most satisfying heroine since Scarlett O'Hara. America Moncure catches the womanly public coming & going: she is at once a Jezebel, a faithful wife, a W.C.T.U.-pledgee, a patrician, a pauper, a farmer, a mother of ingrate children sired by a worthless husband, a passionate creature, an unsatisfied creature, a high-grade businesswoman. Her hair is "glossy as a fresh-shucked chestnut," and even in old age her "crooked little smile" only adds to her good looks...
Tokyo was the unhappy climax of Ambassador Grew's career. It was the most difficult post a U.S. Ambassador could be given, and tall, grey, patrician Joseph Clark Grew had earned it by becoming the No. 1 U.S. career diplomat...
...HILL-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
Possibly the most moving passages in The Song of Bernadette give account of the conversion of Werfel's archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille...