Word: upstart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returns to the Duke, who, finding her humanized by love, forgives the upstart and does not kill him. Her royal keeper does not mind whom she loves so long as her tenderness for somebody makes her forget she has a fiery temperament to uphold. Thus, on a cynical note, ends an uneven revelation that a too passionate wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss...
...brief chronicles were sternly discriminatory. For years it ignored the upstart Buonaparte. Only when Napoleon threatened to confiscate the Gotha's archives, did it finally submit to printing his name in its imperial list...
...from the Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does...
...figure,--concerning whom much red ink has already been spilt,--has appeared to carry out Dante's dream. Perhaps it is a further waste of ink to say more of this Benito Mussolini. But he is a figure who challenges comparison; one who has not proved a short-lived upstart, nor yet an overbearing Napoleon, seeking to conquer Europe; but one whose rule has been characterized by sanity and vigor. Recently he has given additional proof of his many-sided genius, by active interest in a movement to improve the moral standard of Italian literature, and again by a proclamation...
Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...