Word: hifalutin
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...tooted his automobile horn in the six years since Crump had banned traffic noise. Lawns were clipped and green; Crump wanted the city to be beautiful. Memphis "niggers" (40% of the population) were quiet; and whites, some of whom had Negro mistresses, could say contentedly: "No trouble here; no hifalutin' ideas...
...Quarterbacks. The Navy had coasted, apparently confident that Congress would fall for no hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific...
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...hope, that American secondary education will purge itself of this hifalutin nonsense, and get back to essentials is to indulge in an optimism entirely unwarranted by its past performance. To hope, however, that it may be forced to undertake at least a partial reformation if the colleges raise a sufficiently loud clamor, and in the case of the Eastern colleges which can afford to do so, apply some real pressure, is not too sanguine an expectation. Harvard, for many years the great innovator of the college world, should take the lead in guiding or forcing the secondary schools...
...These are facts that cannot be gotten around by hifalutin talk about the beauty of Southern women and the chivalry of Southern men," said the professor of English...