Word: patricianism
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...Patrician burghers still blush painfully at mention of the shocking events of last year, when the native crew of Holland's biggest battleship, DC Zevcn Provincien, waited until the commander and most of the officers were ashore, mutinied, and seized the ship (TIME...
Desirable (Warner). The story about the actress whose grown daughter imperils her career and interrupts her romance is familiar to cinemaddicts. So is the story of the plebeian beauty who. visiting the patrician parents of her fiance, shocks them by saying "My father was a florist." Desirable combines these two stories in a program picture which contains a few well-written sequences but not enough to make it valid either as comedy or problem play. Verree Teasdale, George Brent and Jean Muir perform competently...
...different way. Major Granville Roland Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years ago in Honolulu's sensational rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932). Daughter Thalia more recently has made headlines by her divorce from...
Oldest, strangest and most patrician indoor court game is court-tennis, played with curved rackets shaped like little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence...
...Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank, who has contributed more than one-third of St. John's endowment fund, promptly resigned from the college's finance committee. So did Sylvester W. Labrot, the committee's chairman. Friends of the Board of Trustees said that strongwilled, patrician Dr. Gordon had failed to "cooperate," that he had coddled rich students, snubbed and tyrannized others. But Gordon friends declared his lack of cooperation had been chiefly in a stand against loose financing, unwarranted free scholarships for board members' friends. Last week a representative committee of St. John...