Word: plebian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vivacious wife. After talking with them, Frau Stresemann, who knows little (and does not claim to know anything) of British politics, confided to a German friend that she 'quite hoped" dear Lady Mosley's husband was going to be made Prime Minister then and there instead of plebian Mr. MacDonald...
...last H.R.H. plumped full into a taxi and the driver started to argue. Next day all Bucharest knew that Royalty had knocked the plebian down, kicked him below the belt and had then departed, leaving others to carry the driver to a hospital. So disturbing to Rumania's politics was this scandal that the Government provided Prince Nicholas with a special horn, at the sound of which all other motorists must now give way, as to a fire engine.* Since then H.R.H. has had no more motoring accidents. But the scandal has not subsided, and last week Lupta...