Word: patricianism
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...after all, even with its modern methods the University is much the same. There are the same half-bewildered Freshmen, the same very sophisticated Sophomores admiring the world from their boarding-house porches, or if their tastes are less patrician from corners and drug-stores on Massachusetts Avenue, the same athletes "taking it around the Stadium" on the same hot and moisty September afternoons. All is very much the same, but a new year is upon...
...first shore visit was at Vancouver, B. C. As the Henderson approached the port an aeroplane of the Royal Canadian Air Force brought the President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...Kohlsaat has been for thirty years a journalist, publisher, politician-behind-scenes. He has been one of the more engaging if less dynamic personalities in Chicago's rush toward eminence. Now he has written a book.* Charles Scribner, patrician publisher, is selling it by the thousands, although George Horace Lorimer had already printed most of it in the Saturday Evening Post...
...inconspicuous corners of the book so as not to hamper the author in developing his real theme-post-war Europe. Bertram Pollard is one of those unusually effective majors in the War who find themselves correspondingly unequipped for earning a living after it. Pollard is married to Joyce, patrician to the tips of her fine fingers. But he has other demands on his sympathy-he is half-Irish, one brother-in-law is an Irish revolutionary, later caught and executed, another is a German noble, his father is an extreme Tory M. P., who favors reprisals in Ireland, his father...
...standard duties of distinguished guests, an English professor has risen to the defense of the cockney used by Mrs. Gam and Samuel Weller. Instead of being the immorial personifications of London's proletarial, both spoke in the purest English style, which a few centurles earlier would have been positively patrician...