Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conseil de l'Ecole, par deliberation en date du 29 8bre, 1877, a cree des bourses d'etudes destinees aux 20 principales Universites de l'Europeet du Nouveau Monde...
...replied, with apparent sincerity, that you seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort of a person, but his notions of amusing impudence do not agree with mine. He is an extremely nouveau riche, in fact, of the sort who cannot see the difference between vulgar impertinence and the decent amount of assurance that every gentleman ought to possess. And ever since I met him I have been tormented with the idea that you might possibly be sacrificing your old notions of manners, which...