Once known to be a peasant’s dish, according to one story, the addition of feta in the 1960s really put it on the proverbial map.
—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
19 June 2025
Exacerbating the widespread unrest was the royal family’s close relationship with Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian peasant who claimed to wield control over the health of Alexei, the czar’s only son.
—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 June 2025
Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.
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Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2024
Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.
The princess accompanied her children during the carriage procession of Trooping the Colour wearing an outfit inspired by Eliza Doolittle, the commoner who pretends to be a duchess, in My Fair Lady.
—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party contends that opening royal status to commoners is just one step down a path that will ultimately lead to the abandonment of patrilineal legitimacy, ultimately discarding the sacred Y chromosome.
—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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