Word: intelligensia
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...score Boston debutantes, Faculty literati, officers of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, and the old intelligensia will welcome the stage celebrities. We gather from Mlles Baronova, Toumanova, and Riabouchinska, last year's featured guests, that the Bow Street Palace is just like "a little bit of New Russia...
...differential and integral calculus, and who has also spent many years (not recently) in the study of checkers and in original analysis of published match and tournament games, I may be privileged to speak on this phase. Curiously enough, chess has been almost wholly the choice of the intelligensia (real and fancied) and has been given, of course, widest publicity by the press. Again, the game of chess has enjoyed the favor, as a rule, of those who possessed rather more of this world's (material) goods. Perhaps Mr. Banks can approach an explanation of this...
Sneer the intelligensia, George Jean Nathanwise: "If Mr. Jordan were a baker, would he varnish his own pretzels?" Opine rival auto advertising writers: "He deserves most of the credit for tapping a new source of auto advertising appeal-the 'red blooded youth' racket...
...Comtesse de Ceran typifies coldness, severity, and conventionality. These roles are played by Miss Ethel Thayer and Miss Emily Sears respectively. Lucy Watson, played by Miss Mary Otis, is an English girl who quotes Hunter and Darwin profusely and publicely, desiring to pass as a member of the "intelligensia...
...primarily for the British working class that Mr. Strachey writes, yet all he says can be read with much profit by the workers of other countries and by so-called intelligensia, from the struggling student immersed in dry text books to the "hardest-boiled" employer of mankind...