ellauri051.html on line 395: Ladies and cavaliers long dead--barons are in their castle halls--the ammoin kuolleet leidit ja miljonäärit -- rosvoparonit linnoissaan --
ellauri107.html on line 487: They grinned and went into the Neronian washroom, where a line of men bent over the bowls inset along a prodigious slab of marble as in religious prostration before their own images in the massy mirror. Voices thick, satisfied, authoritative, hurtled along the marble walls, bounded from the ceiling of lavender-bordered milky tiles, while the lords of the city, the barons of insurance and law and fertilizers and motor tires, laid down the law for Zenith; announced that the day was warm-indeed, indisputably of spring; that wages were too high and the interest on mortgages too low; that Babe Ruth, the eminent player of baseball, was a noble man; and that “those two nuts at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week certainly are a slick pair of actors.”
ellauri161.html on line 511: Before Covid, former Saturday Night live head writer Adam McKay had already written his smug doomsday satire Don't Look Up based on the usual liberal tropes. Chief among them was the old progressive rant linking those on the right to a predatory elite consisting of a group who were referred to as, in the parlance of days gone by, "robber barons."
ellauri161.html on line 529: So what exactly is wrong with McKay's picture of the "robber barons" aligning with the right? Well it's anachronistic. Today it's the left who are in power and it appears that Big Tech is in lock step with them. What's more the left can no longer be said to be sticking up for the "little guy," as they have granted a monopoly to pharmaceutical companies in their promotion of vaccines.
ellauri172.html on line 761: Knut, après un pèlerinage à Rome, débarque en Norvège en 1028 et se proclame roi à Nidaros. Olaf se réfugie alors en Suède avec quelques barons fidèles comme Finn Arnesson et ses frères Torberg et Arni et Rognvald Brusason. Après deux ans d'exil, en 1029, il tente un retour en Norvège mais est battu et tué à Stiklestad le 29 juillet 1030 à l'âge de 35 ans.
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