Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolutionary statesman rose out of century-old oblivion, cheered Wet leaders. For in the pages of a letter, grown yellow and faded, Gouverneur Morris penned vigorous words 123 years ago that now threaten the legality of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (commonly known as the Liquor Prohibition Amendment). Aristocrat, rebel, descendant of sturdy Roundheads and men of law, Gouverneur Morris led the fight for the Declaration of Independence in his native state New York, helped draft the U. S. Constitution. His contribution to the Constitution is disputed. However, in 1804, Morris wrote to Timothy Pickering: "That instrument was written...
Today, in Peking at the semibarbaric court of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, Mrs. Wellington Koo is par excellence the cosmopolitan aristocrat of feminine China...
...HARD-BOILED VIRGIN - Frances Newman - Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A sophisticated Southern aristocrat learns about herself...
...fortune was estimated at between forty and fifty millions. He had fastened a prodigious habit upon his countrymen, who today drink 7,000,000 little brown glasses every 24 hours in response to $5,000,000 per annum of advertising. And so a miracle had happened in Georgia. An aristocrat, a South-ener, had beaten modern industry. "Merchant Prince of the South," they called him; "First Citizen of Atlanta." He accepted his honors gravely. Why should he have been flustered ? He was not a nouveau; his was no rags-to-riches story but the far rarer reversal by which blood...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...