Sentences with phrase «old aristocratic families»

He was born in 1878 into one of Germany's old aristocratic families with a tradition of service in both Church and nation.

What turned an ambitious officer from an old aristocratic family into the mastermind of a coup détat?

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Tocqueville's aristocratic age, however, did not have political parties of this sort in it; the affiliations he had in mind were more or less inherited ones that pertained to family name and rank... There are still echoes of that... however, the mid-twentieth-century socialist revolutions that occurred throughout the region... dismantled much of that old order, but without firmly establishing the individual in its place.

A light romantic drama set on the horse racing circuit, Harlow is a socialite back from Europe, where he's picked up a lot of aristocratic attitude and a swell of a beau (Walter Pidgeon as a high society bachelor with old family money), and Clark Gable is a race track bookie and friend of the family who alternately competes with her and for her.

In an exquisitely detailed adventure set in the Austro - Hungarian empire, Ibbotson skillfully enfolds deliciously cruel villains, crumbling aristocratic families, stolen jewels, and a cast of lovable, intrepid characters into a 12 - year - old's search for her true family.