The U.S. Constitution has a Titles of Nobility clause that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility. Of course, Old Money is invariably contrasted with “New Money.” This, in turn, refers to families that possess equal or perhaps even greater wealth but have not yet...
Despite the morass of plot, the emotional through-line—Fairbanks behaving like a cad then spending the rest of the movie trying to prove his nobility to Blondell—stays strong and poignant. You catch yourself rooting hard for these two crazy kids. Which makes the ending quite a blow. Pre-...
The Oxford English Dictionary noted the slang usage of cock as early as 1891, calling it “the current name” for penis “among the people, but pudoris causa not admissible in polite speech or literature.” Pudoris causa may look like yet another term for “penis,” but it’s a Lati...
“That I dare to repeat to you, and I would also remark that we are not in the mystical assembly of the Rosicrucians, and your familiar ‘Du’ is out of place. I belong to the Illuminati, and mingle with the freethinkers. They have not, indeed, promised me titles, honors, or dig...
The Chinese diaspora around the world has created some trouble with romanized forms of surnames. Since many people migrated before the Pinyin system was developed, their surnames were simply spelled by local English-speakers wherever they moved. So, the Mainland Chinese name Chen became Tan in Mala...
of the “Archaeologia” by Mr. Peacock, cover much of the ground which had been scarcely traversed before by any scientific English inquirer. The importance of an insight into the culinary economy of the Romans lies in the obligations under which the more western nations of Europe are to it...
But what’s done is done, so the two travel off together to make their fortune, until such time as Tom is himself again. And after some wanderings, the two of them go into the textile business, with Jennifer finding work with an old weaver in one of my favorite fictional English cathed...
Because of the French revolution and his former status in the nobility as the Baron de Beauvois, Palisot was unable to return to France without risking the guillotine. Instead he boarded a ship bound for the United States but, en route, was relieved of his remaining belongings by pirates ...
one (Guy Pearce) makes a deal to save the youngest by finding and killing the eldest (Danny Huston). But beyond the plot and the sporadic violence, there are all sort of other textures, most thrillingly and dangerously, a kind of admiration for the perverse nobility of choosing a life ...
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