Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort to which few other men have ever been subjected outside a court of law. But his deeds are more easily judged than the man, who has always remained curiously elusive. A classical product of a classical British education (Eton, Oxford and the Somme), Eden was an aristocrat by birth, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an unlovable country eccentric whose baronetcy dates back to the 17th century...
Born in Moscow a few months before Napoleon entered the Czar's tinder capital (1812), Alexander Herzen grew up a bastard aristocrat in a land of serfs, hating the vast sloth of the barbarous empire. Like many another conscience-stricken property owner of his time, he became one of the wild geese of Russia who flapped about Europe hoping that their words would huff and puff down the Byzantine walls of the czardom...
...extraordinary transfer of power from a military dictatorship to a democratically elected government took place in Lima last week, on the 13 5th anniversary of Peru's independence from Spain. Inaugurated as President for a six-year term was Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 67, a conservative, pro-U.S. aristocrat who had already served one full presidential term, 1939-45.* On the same day the new Congress speedily and unanimously dismantled the dictatorship's legal structure. In a series of new-broom bills, the lawmakers declared an amnesty for political prison ers, swept away oppressive security laws, restored legality...
...Paris hotel one sunny morning in 1926, a serious-minded young Hindu aristocrat took upon himself a delicate task. Resolutely he squared his slim shoulders and summoned out onto the balcony his younger sister, a lively 19-year-old who, under his watchful eye, was getting her first taste of life in Europe. "Darling," he began, "you go out alone with a lot of young men. That is as it should be, but I hope you know all about everything-er, you know, er-I suppose every girl must know, dash...
...veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation at the rude Professor Higgins, touching as she manfully struggles with a mouthful of marbles (when she swallows one, Higgins says cheerily: "Oh, don't worry, I have plenty more"), uproariously funny as she balances a teacup opening day at Ascot...