Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, for the first time in the history of Manhattan's blueblood Westminster Kennel Club show, was a boxer, a mighty pug-ugly named Warlord of Mazelaine, which won best-in-show over 2,598 rivals. The decision was up to one judge and his conscience, and he cleared it this way: "The Boston [terrier] impressed me very much but the boxer was best tonight. Perhaps tomorrow the Boston would have had the better...
Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin is a blueblood, a clubman, a bon ivant, friend of kings and minor potentates. He can write and draw with both hands and both feet simultaneously (after first re moving his shoes) and has occasionally done so in legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and sprightly style by doing public...
...elegant Hotel New Angleterre, in Athens, was a favorite honeymoon spot at the turn of the century. Years ago, Boston's blueblood lawyer Robert Gray Dodge stayed there. Last week, one of its shabby, faded rooms with a wash basin in the corner was the office of his handsome, curly-blonde daughter, Lieut. Colonel Katherine ("Khaki") Dodge, 43, the U.S. Public Health Service's only woman Senior Surgeon on active relief duty...
Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart is more familiarly known as the Duke of Alba and Berwick. Six times a duke, twelve times a marquis, 17 times a count and 15 times a grandee of Spain, the brittle old (66) blueblood was once a close friend of the late Alfonso XIII. Last week he resigned as Spain's Ambassador in London. This desertion of the shaky government of fat Francisco Franco came hard on the heels of the monarchist manifesto issued by the Spanish Pretender Don Juan (TIME, April 2). No one doubted that Alba-"Jimmie...
...Blueblood Bradford won his reputation in two terms as District Attorney of Middlesex County, which surrounds Boston on the north with slums, farms and villages. In this time he sent the mayors of Cambridge and Lowell, and the State Commissioner of Public Works, to jail. (The mayor of Marlboro, another Bradford target, killed himself.) Bradford was re-elected with the biggest majority in Middlesex history (he had twice the lead of his fellow blueblood, Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who headed the ticket...