Word: wellborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidate Battle, a state senator from Charlottesville, won by a comfortable 23,000 votes over his only serious competitor, wellborn, New-Dealing Francis Pickens Miller, who had the help of Virginia's growing Negro vote and its labor unions...
...wrote a number of anonymous leading articles for the liberal Neues Wiener Tagblatt; but when a radical stood up in Parliament and denounced the House of Habsburg, Rudolph reverted to type and had the man horsewhipped. He spent hours updating his "Register of Conquests"; if the lady was wellborn, she got a silver cigarette box engraved with his signature-if she was a commoner, it bore only his coat of arms...
Died. Major Guy Richard Charles Wyndham, 52, wellborn, well-to-do war correspondent for the London Sunday Times; by machine-gun fire; in Jerusalem (again demonstrating that the war correspondent's risk is greater than the average soldier...
...well-bred tastes; the Chief (a fellow alumnus of St. Paul's and Harvard) had never so much as peeked over his shoulder. Bull had tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich and the able" a nodding acquaintance, at least with such dressy writers as W. H. Auden, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alec and Evelyn Waugh, Oliver La Farge...
Army: Oliver (A) defeated Backe (H) 2-0. Wellborn (A) defeated Tufts (H), 2-0. Callaway (A) defeated Coon (H), 2-1. Peraci (A) defeated Wightman (H), 2-1. Stillson (A) defeated Levin (H), 2-0. Warren (H) defeated Lauer (A), 2-1. Oliver and McMuller (A) defeated Backe and Pratt (H), 2-0. Tufts and Coon (H) defeated Wellborn and Cummings (A), 2-1. Levin and Willner (H) defeated Stillson and Maihofer...