Word: highbrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...
First there is Senator George Wharton Pepper, who wants reelection. He is probably worth more than a million. He has the support of Mr. Mellon and Senator Reed. His is day. He is a staunch Administration man. He will have part of the regular Republican vote, part of the highbrow vote...
...shall judge whether the club has or has not occasionally shown the trying Harvard snobbishness? Quite possibly it has; but if so, all we have to remember is that the highbrow is only a little absurd and rather amusing, while the lowbrow is devastating to all that might be fine in our life. The glee club is doing an essential work in the spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange...
...Club's concert which took place last night in Brattle Hall, was written for the Crimson by Professor Edward Burlingame Hill '94 of the University's Music Department, Professor Hill remarked on finishing his review that it was distinctly a relief to attend a concert which was obviously not "highbrow." The review follows...
...elements of which the News is Herald and High Defender. Ha! here was dragon's meat indeed. Class prejudice could be stirred up like a muddy puddle. Ignorant and penurious people could be made to feel that they had a grievance. They could be made to hate the "highbrow" Outlook, to distrust the "capitalist" New York World, to scorn Mr. Seitz. The News push-pen jammed a piece of copy-paper in his typewriter, wrote as follows...