Word: meagerest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...than you may think. There can be snobbery without kings. Witness the United States, which produces the article on a lavish scale, as the society columns of nearly all our daily organs of democratic opinion so eloquently testify. But there cannot be a king without snobbery. Not even the meagerest German princeling, fourth in line of succession to a reline for which no average Iowa farmer would trade his fat acres without boot, could exist a day without it. Taken out of the atmosphere of snobbery, like a fish out of water, he would simply give three gasps, two flops...