Word: patricianism
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Stooping Patrician...
...Times cracked its joke, amazing because so unexpected, about Fannie Brice's nose three years ago† something that was again evident when, last summer, the Times departed from its rule against "features" and began printing the labored wit of Funnyman Will Rogers (TIME, Aug. 16). The Times, patrician of the press, was stooping to the popular...
...sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King Emperor. Soon Commoner Cohn will wreck his new-bought house-once the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury-will erect on its patrician site an apartment hotel...
Whoever wrote this book (and it must have been a woman) is capable of endowing synthetic images with all the tangibility of unsatisfactory reality. The senile Earl, convinced that she is some patrician Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington...
...business. . . ." To put 50 per cent of one's takings back into an enterprise is unusual; 95 per cent is phenomenal. Few men would do it. Yet this has been the policy of Adolph Ochs publisher, executed by Louis Wiley, business manager. Publisher Ochs is a grave, patrician gentleman, with a bland hand and a judicial eye. His name is the only exclamatory thing about him. He presents an assurance of stability, a hint of qualities that take capitals, an implication of old-worldness, of principles, even, that seem oddly exotic in a world where tinsel is the mode...