Word: patricianism
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...heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton's young sister Bessie and an admirer who has followed her to London. The crisis that brings them all into violent collision comes when...
Another was Virginia's patrician little Carter Glass, but, bored by Senatorial exhibitionism, he never attended...
Guiding policies, occasionally writing editorials. Motoyama was chiefly interested in the financial and business direction of his newspapers. His handsome, patrician, heavily-lined face, kindly and visionary, was in evidence at his Osaka office until the end. Though his mind and heart roamed the earth, he stayed always in the Far East. Said he: "I am too old to see the world, so I see it through the eyes of my young men, who go everywhere...
Paramount invariably gives Director Lubitsch expert casts and this time he had Herbert Marshall for the role of a romantic crook, Miriam Hopkins for the crook's accomplice and inamorata, and Kay Francis for the patrician lady they set out to rob. Miss Francis obligingly makes Herbert Marshall her secretary and then falls in love with...
...Arundel, Sussex home, handsome, patrician John Galsworthy, 65. learned he had been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. To Dr. Irvinq Langmuir, 51, went the Nobel award for Chemistry (see p. 24). Left: by Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, relict of Publisher Charles Phelps Taft of the Cincinnati Times-Star, sister-in-law of the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts...