This impostor wormed his way into high society and talked his way into important jobs.
He and his wife Patricia are familiar figures in high society, hobnobbing with former presidents like George H.
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The film follows the High Society actress in 1962 after she married Prince Rainier III, becoming Princess Grace.
The Grand Tour was a European cultural jaunt focused on Italy that became part of the education of 18th-century high society.
Oysters held an almost mythical status among high society of 17th-century Europe.
The seaside Hotel Saint George -- the center of high society Beirut in the 60's -- is still in ruins.
The high society of Los Angeles was outraged, and Mrs Sterling mortified.
The early scenes especially are likely to induce motion sickness, and not just because Nick is getting drunk on New York's high society.
Balsan, played brilliantly by Benoit Poelvoorde, introduces her to the Parisian high society and fashion -- lavishness the wide-eyed Chanel rapidly acclimatized to.
Harlem was then the unofficial capital of Negro America, with its own codes of behaviour and refinement, its own high society and cultural elite.
Fizz-fuelled Hollywood parties in the 1930s imbued the drink with glamour, but today Champagne is as much a part of popular culture as high society.
Rather embarrassing stuff for a wannabe member of British high society.
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Old money often helps newly arrived money to penetrate high society.
If you do not have time for a meal, step in for a martini or Manhattan at the long bar and watch the parade of high society drop in for dinner.
Visitors, including royalty and members of high society - dubbed "the Quality" by locals - came to the village to drink its water, which was said to have health benefits.
The man who called himself Clark Rockefeller has been the subject of books and TV movies focusing on his bizarre travels through high society as a man of many identities.
He was an outsider by class, by education, and by sexual preference in the high society in which he moved, and felt obliged to live up to his own, rather hollow, myth.
Mr. MYERS: The jumping boogie sound even made it into high society when those three, calling themselves the Boogie-Woogie Trio, performed at Carnegie Hall for the now famous Spiritual Swing Concert in 1938.
This semi-rural peninsula of New York state, which juts out into the Atlantic in two thin forks, has become world-famous for its extraordinary wealth and privilege, and the high society of polo games, lawn parties and sports cars that go with it.
Marie - who could be glamorous when she wanted to and was as at home in London high society as she was roughing it on warfronts - gave my daughter Shona a faux Coco Chanel handbag as an arrival present.
The job of the intellectual luminaries in Western high society today is to hate Jews the old-fashioned way, the way their greatgrandparents hated Jews back in the days of the early 20th century before that villain Adolf Hitler gave Jew hating a bad name.
The waltz is sacred to Viennese high society, and rules are so strict that if you want to take part in any of the exclusive opening balls, a mastery of the Viennese waltz reverse turn (which for non-dance folk means, basically, to the left) is required by all ball committees.
With an ache for normalcy, I dared to go swimming in the abandoned pool at the Sheraton where excited locals regularly shot up the glass dome ceiling of our location in celebration and sometimes took aim at each other in our fancy lobby that once entertained high society.
The club now has over 1, 000 members and on Thursday's "club night, " Pioneer Hill is a bright bubbling throng of Chittagong high society, imbibing scotch and munching snacks as they gaily solve the world's problems sitting amid the blue smoke and twinkling lights and laughter of that wondrous panoramic verandah.
The costs of relying on guns and ammo alone for profits are too high for society, gunmakers, and their shareholders.
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Now he and the rest of the racing world are watching China, where racing seems to be blossoming into a high-society pursuit.
Attendance at Royal Ascot, an annual high-society parade with some horse-racing attached, plummeted when it was moved from Berkshire to York in 2005.
They are fixtures at Palm Beach charity function and high-society balls, and the family was believed to be the basis of the television series Cane.
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Yet these excursions in high and low society feel a bit like staged distractions.
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