Word: patricianism
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...order to have your portrait painted by de Laszlo it is advisable to have a firm and masterful face if you are a man, an expression of graciously patrician elegance if you are a woman. This will make it simpler for Painter de Laszlo to inject these qualities into his portraiture, but they are by no means the only requirements for being a de Laszlo subject. You will also need $14,000 if you want a really first-rate product, full length, executed with all the Sargentesque splendor at his command. For $10,000 you can have a neat three...
...patrician middle-aged woman pointed a sharp straight finger at a young Hawaiian named Joe Kahahawai as he sauntered down the front steps of the Court House in Honolulu one sunny morning last week. "That's the man!" she said...
Hialeah racetrack, at Miami, is controlled by immensely rich and patrician Joseph Early Widener of Philadelphia who owns 16 Rembrandts, a cemetery for his deceased racehorses at Elmendorf, near Lexington, Ky., and has Tautz of London come over twice a year to see to his clothes. Vice-chairman of the U. S. Jockey...
...provide a background for Colman's savoir faire, Hecht & MacArthur made him a patrician burglar seeking what seems a most unlikely sanctuary in a ruined castle on the Algerian desert. He reaches this stronghold by making off with a fancy auto in which Estelle Taylor had hoped to haul him off to the authorities, for a reward. Among the denizens of the ruined castle ?a doctor who has murdered three wives and uses the skull of one for an ash tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with...
...spectators. There was some confusion about the medal, for the name of Molla Bjursted Mallory, eight-time Woman's Champion, and of Mary K. Browne had unaccountably been left off the list. Richard Dudley Sears, in a loud burst of applause, shook hands four times, received his medal with patrician politeness. He made no great show of liking the ceremony but said he was glad he had come, against his doctor's advice, because "they only hold these things every 50 years and I may not be here for the next...