Word: upper-class
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Superdeb. "Princess Anne lives the same sort of life as many upper-class English girls," says a Buckingham Palace spokesman -except that she is richer than most (an allowance of ?6,000 or $14,400 a year), her friends have to call her "Ma'am," and a private detective accompanies her everywhere. She also has decidedly more fringe benefits, what with her furnished three-room suite in Buckingham Palace, a fleet of helicopters available to whisk her here and there, access to the world's most famous and fascinating people and invitations to a constant round of elite...
...rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath's peculiar accent behind his back...
...this time, although possibly half of those were blacks. In one black precinct in Jefferson County, Brewer's margin was 2,149 to 24; in a Montgomery precinct, it was 2,829 to 227. The Governor's other strength came mainly from affluent suburbs and middle-and upper-class white neighborhoods of large cities, where the new, enlightened Alabama is taking shape. The decisive vote turned out to be that of the blue-collar workers, who responded heavily to Wallace's populism and racism...
...were carefully sorted out in the Yard in a caste system. The floor I lived on in Thayer there was only one real upper-class type-Lewis Jefferson Proctor [St. Paul's]. His father was head of American Telephone for South America. He died in 1958 of sheer decadence on the Riviera...
...Calkins, reminisces. "In the forties we didn't understand what a little pusher Calkins was. We were taken by his enormous propriety. His character at Harvard was that of a well-trained student guy who doesn't fuck around. He's the perfect example of a man not really upper-class, but a semi-decayed pilgrim descendant who had to make good on his own. He's the prime example of the paragon good boy-never made a mistake...