Word: plebeian
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...Britain's Princess Margaret has flown on Royal Air Force planes. But for a brief visit with her mother-in-law, the Countess of Rosse in Ireland, Margaret and Hus band Antony Armstrong-Jones booked to go on an Irish commercial airliner, tourist class. Possible reason for their plebeian style: if they came winging in over Irish ground in a British military aircraft, it might stir up the wrong kind of feelings...
...grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a foreign newsman, Premier Chou En-lai moaned that China this year had been visited by the worst combination of natural disasters in the century. No fewer than 133 million acres (one-half of the arable land) had been blistered by drought, tattered by storms or chomped bare by grasshoppers...
...Jewish resort hotels in New York's Catskill Moun tains, where he won strong applause from mainly Democratic audiences, Lodge made a tour of New York beaches with Gover nor Nelson Rockefeller, and proved that the G.O.P. politicians who had considered Patrician Lodge too snooty to appeal to plebeian voters didn't know their man. Recognized by beachgoers as the strapping, handsome guy they had seen battling the Russians in televised United Nations debates, Lodge had a great day. At Long Island's Jones Beach, he kissed his first baby of the 1960 campaign...
...Grandson Julian's phrase, is needed to explain Huxley's many-faceted genius. His father, who died mad, was a poor schoolmaster at Great Ealing (a school attended by Thackeray, Cardinal Newman and W. S. Gilbert); Tom was a pupil there briefly, and hated it. As a "plebeian,"' which is what he proudly called himself, young Huxley could not hope for a university education in 19th century England, but a scholarship and a medical brother-in-law saved him from the obscurity of the uneducated. He graduated in medicine from London's Charing Cross Hospital, served...
When Mohammed II in 1453 wrested Constantinople from the last of the Caesars, Constantine XI Palaeologus, he barely missed capturing the papal ambassador, Cardinal Isidore of Russia, as an extra prize. But Isidore put his distinctive cardinal's hat and robes on a corpse, and in plebeian rags scuttled through a gap in the wall even as Mohammed's followers were mistakenly displaying the severed head of the corpse as Isidore...