Word: cliquish
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...shiny black glove which covers his artificial right hand. A third, when rolling up his sleeve, is careful to keep four livid scars well covered. These and others in the group get an occasional nod from passing students, but they are different from the rest - proud, reserved, mature, cliquish, hard to know. Coeds and Navy V12 trainees fresh from high school mostly ignore them...
President Neilson reformed at home by gradually abolishing the college's cliquish off-campus houses in favor of dormitories, introducing tutorial work in special honors courses, in general treating his girls as though they were not very different from men. Smith girls, who are inclined to be smart and well-balanced, respect President Neilson's wishes in such matters as not knitting or chewing gum in class. But when several Northampton residents once complained that his girls should pull their shades down at night before undressing, President Neilson observed that they should pull down their own instead. Once...
...John G. being a man whom you know merely in the catalogue, or, at most, have a nodding - I can't say bowing - acquaintance with. Now, shall we confess to these outsiders that there are many different circles of friends in each class, and that we are, in short, cliquish? Doggy, who never speaks to any one except the four men who got into his society ahead of him, and some six or seven who came after him, says he does n't see that there's any exclusiveness here. Yet you'd be less surprised to find Waitt when...
...there's no use in denying it, we are cliquish; even Doggy can't prove the contrary, though he says there's no reason why Quiet, whom no one ever notices, should n't enjoy college; and we have a great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which...