Word: wellborn
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Another thing Evangeline Adams did for U.S. astrology was to convince a young, wellborn Philadelphian named Carroll Righter that he ought to be an astrologer. As a friend of his family, she met him first at 14, found out his birth time ("I'm a gregarious Aquarius," he archly rhymes), and informed him repeatedly that his chart was perfect for interpreting the stars?"just like mine...
Whether they are able to exert a continuing influence on policy under President Nixon may prove to be a matter of some importance to the future of this country. Their weak, even marginal, position with the GOP, their political rootlessness within the party of the rich and the wellborn, suggests that the GOP liberals may not have much effect on the crucial decisions to be made on Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the problems of the cities. Ultimately, the Ripon people and the Republican liberals whom they represent may encounter once again the fundamental problem facing men who enter...
Died. Sir "Evelyn Wrench, 84, a wellborn journalist from Northern Ireland and longtime chairman of The Spectator, who in 1918, in order "to draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-speaking people of the world," founded the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, to facilitate cultural exchanges, give scholarships, hold conferences, in 1920 founded a U.S. counterpart, saw the groups grow to more than 100,000 members; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England...
...promises of technical aid and increased trade. He flattered South American self-esteem with lofty references to Bolivar, San Martín and Sucre, and in turn was feted with speeches filled with mentions of Pascal, Racine, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Jeanne d'Arc. He entertained the rich and wellborn at receptions, and nodded and waved with friendly but aloof dignity to the huge crowds that jammed the streets and the squares to see him and hail...
...history and their own excesses. The original estancias were carved from the wilderness in the early 19th century by an adventurous breed of Spanish, British, Italian and Irish immigrants. Their sons and grandsons made their own legends by squandering the wealth. Argentines knew them as ninos bien, the wellborn children...