Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the hearing, smart Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, stanch Tammany man who always wears an orchid in his buttonhole, objected to the admission of privately secured testimony, accused Referee Seabury of "prejudging the case." Tall, patrician Inquisitor Seabury flushed and said quietly: "I consider that remark grossly impertinent...
Inquisitor Seabury, 57, a ruddy, silver-haired, liberal patrician, has gone about his inquisitorial duties since last summer with such ability and unassuming good grace that in some quarters last week there was talk of drafting him for Fusion Mayor in 1933. Graduated from Columbia University and New York Law School, he was admitted to the bar in 1894. In politics he has been amazingly independent, having been nominated for public office at various times by Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Single Taxers. Populists, Hearstian Independent Democrats. In 1907 he mounted the State Supreme Court Bench, distinguished himself by liberal opinions...
...York). Nowhere outside of Holland is the population so cycle-minded. Largest town is Hamilton where stands the Sessions House, Bermuda's parliament; the Cathedral; the cinema (Mechanics Hall). Here dock the liners from New York and Liverpool and here are the great hotels: the Hamilton, the patrician Princess, the gaudy Bermudiana. And here are Bermuda's chief emporia: Gosling Bros., for groceries, foodstuffs, wines & liquors; and Trimingham Bros, department store. Trimingham's does...
...famed Old English (with Actor George Arliss) at last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them: The Man of Property, The Patrician, The Dark Flower, To Let, The White Monkey; (plays): Justice, The Fugitive, The Mob, The Skin Game...
...Newport's tennis week. Restrained in their comments, visitors wandered from booth to booth smiling pleasantly at dealers, murmuring: "Nice bit of spode," "I question that settle," "Lovely chair, but the patina is gone." Enthusiasms were reserved for explosively greeting their friends. Inside the dealers' booths, elegant young gentlemen, patrician young ladies, looked languidly down their noses...