Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers Antony will seem a rare bit of old England. The book is largely made up of letters written by Antony, mostly to his father and mother, with occasional replies and explanatory comment, and never do these aristocratic characters step out of the role to which it pleased their forefathers to call them. Ripped from the context of a commoner's life these letters would still be unusual; from the pen of a viscount they seem extraordinary. Those who think that the good old breed of English aristocrat has vanished will realize after reading Antony that one example...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...
Terangi was an island aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...
General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien...
...year-old officer was oppressed by great worries. His army was unfed, undisciplined, dissipating every victory by pillaging. His staff was jealous and unreliable. The suspicious Directory in Paris hampered his activities. He was outnumbered by the Austrians and the Piedmontese. Moreover, his bride of 17 days, a onetime aristocrat, did not answer his letters. In less than four months Napoleon had virtually driven the Austrians from Italy, defeated superior forces, been hailed as a liberator, transformed his army from gangs of plunderers to skilled, enthusiastic fighting units, won the esteem of rivals, conducted one of the most significant military...