Word: highbrow
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Critic Thomas King Whipple, who usually writes weighty essays on modern poetry and highbrow fiction, once took a critic's holiday and made a searching analysis of the works of Zane Grey in The Saturday Review of Literature. At that time the prolific Western-story writer had turned out 33 books, with a total sale of about 10,000,000 copies. After thoughtfully picking them to little bits, Professor Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers...
Although they were accused of being highbrow and having a Hah-vahd accent when they faced Scranton, three members of the Debating Council had an otherwise successful Spring tour last week, in which they faced unusually large audiences between Jersey City, N. J. and Williamsburg...
...sole flaw in the tour was the defeat suffered at the hands of the University of Scranton, where ex-Mayor Durkan of Scranton swung a 2-1 judges' decision against Harvard on the accusation of it being highbrow and having a hah-vahd accent...
...meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...that when they grow up they "patronize the most inane motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences the child to adopt the same attitude...