Word: wellborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue-carpeted, wide circular staircase to the main ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel paraded 99 of this season's debutantes, wealthy, wellborn, circumspect in public, acceptable to the Old Guard of Manhattan society...
Died. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, 70, widow of Nikolai Lenin (real name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), "Grand Old Woman" of the Russian Revolution; in Moscow. Aristocratic, indomitable little Krupskaya met Lenin, also wellborn, in 1894 while working for the revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee...
...Sarobia's"' gateposts are topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant...
Intelligent New Engenders were esteemed in Europe as citizens of a young republic who represented a kind of life Europe had never known. When wellborn, serious, intelligent George Ticknor traveled there in 1815 he met Byron, who was pleased with him; Goethe, who was also pleased with him. Ticknor was typical of the travelers who found intellectual stimulation abroad, brought back food for speculation that quickened the minds of a generation, yet did not lose his sense of allegiance and duty to his own country as did the later expatriates. At the end he is seen as a dry, superior...
Perhaps what you mean by "wellborn" is "money-in-the-family-for-the-last-three-or-m o r e-generations." If so, Stimson and Phillips and the King of England and the Duke of Duluth are wellborn, and I'm not. But as far as genes and chromosomes are concerned, I rise to announce that I'm just as well-born as any person you've ever mentioned in your excellent magazine. With the possible exception, of course, of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary...