nabob

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It was enough to prompt New York Times columnist Tom Wicker to give Kennedy the "Safire Prize for Nattering Nabob of the Year."

From Fox News • Mar. 9, 2021

It was enough to prompt New York Times columnist Tom Wicker to give Kennedy the “Safire Prize for Nattering Nabob of the Year.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 9, 2021

His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob.

From Time Magazine Archive

American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal.

From Time Magazine Archive

We inquired of the officer who accompanied us, whether the Nabob was permitted at least to make use of the space within the fortress for exercise in the open air.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von