Word: diligentsia
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...hate them. Respectability pays. He learned the printer's trade, managed a Kansas politician's small-town newspaper, took his good manners to Kansas City and worked on the Star. He married a schoolteacher, got his own small-town newspaper, let his girth grow and joined the diligentsia. Eventually he made his voice heard all over the country. He has taken care not to get too slicked up; has preserved a certain loudness and exaggeration which show, even when he discusses national politics or literature, that he is still a small-town man. But he stands...
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