Word: plutocratism
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Sandra plays the granddaughter of a dying plutocrat (Chevalier) who insists on seeing her fiancé before he "joins the Big Board up yonder." Since her fiance (Williams) is fogbound in Boston, Sandra seizes the first presentable passerby (Goulet) and tells her grandfather that this is the man she loves. Turns out he is, too, but it takes Sandra 95 minutes to find out she wasn't lying...
Every year the migration is heavier, and for obvious reasons: Florida is more crowded than it used to be; the farther south the more certain the weather; and the jet plane has brought the islands within easy reach. The winter vacation, once a plutocrat's privilege, has become a fringe benefit for Everyman, who is discovering that there is nothing quite so soul-satisfying as toasting in the sunshine while one's friends and relations are shivering in the sleet...
...London's High Court of Justice sat portly Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian, 66, the orchid in his buttonhole quivering at the slow progress of his suit against BBC. The son of the late oil mogul Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent") Gulbenkian sought to force BBC to turn over a recording of a 1959 interview in which he complained that the administrators of his father's estate were withholding a part of his inheritance. Barely pausing to eat, Gulbenkian lunched daily in a court anteroom on caviar canapes, truffled ham laced with port, cutlets in aspic and glazed duckling, Belgian raspberries...
...Youth Already Old." When Quadros says, "I am no plutocrat," he means it. He was born and raised a Roman Catholic in the tiny Mato Grosso town of Campo Grande on what was then the woolly fringe of Brazil's wild western frontier. His home was a rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with...
...wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian ("one of the few millionaires who dress like millionaires...