Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 50 years a Charleston Aristocrat is bound for the U.S. Senate. In a special run-off primary last week, husky, sandy-haired Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank won the Democratic nomination which in South Carolina is equivalent to election...
...tough stretch of solitary confinement, with 15 minutes a day in a tiny courtyard, no talking or smoking. But the joke was, concluded Allen, rather on the Germans than himself. In jail he talked to prisoners from Occupied France, Belgium and Holland, politicians, priests, officers, newspapermen, German deserters, an aristocrat or two, who told him much more about Occupied France than he ever could have got outside...
...Anna Holm, Miss Crawford has borne her disfigurement since childhood, frightful to look at, she has turned crimnal to take revenge on a society which doesn't want her. Then she encounters a man who is not repelled by her ugliness-criminal aristocrat named Torsten Barring (Conrad Veidt...
...surgeon (Melvyn Douglas) remake Anna's life. After a stern course of surgery she emerges as beautiful as she was meant to be-and free to pursue her guilty calling under a perfect camouflage. A murder is planned for the purpose of removing the one bar to the aristocrat's inheritance of a fortune. By her eventual revolt against this slaughter Anna rejoins the world which had cast...
Like most Glasgow novels, this one is laid in Queenborough, the imaginary Virginia town which she had made as much her literary province as Hardy made Wessex or Trollope Barsetshire. It is the story of the ineffectualness of a Southern aristocrat, Asa Timberlake, who has lost his money but not his manners. The Timberlake fortune had been invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed...