Word: parvenu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smartchat writers remember the parvenu whose Mayfair mansion stands near that of the daughter of George V, King & Emperor. They remember the bathing-suit parties in the swimming pool on the roof, Hatry's passion for ornate bathrooms even at his office, the fact that he nibbled his food like a woman...
...conspiracy to defraud the U. S., has learned a lot about Destiny. Sinclair is not yet 52 years old. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va. It is less than 25 years since he was first heard of in Wall Street and on Long Island as a wealthy young parvenu from the midwestern oilfields. It is not 30 years since he was the son of a village druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep the little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot...
Probably the most famous passage, and one which takes up a very large portion of the whole story, is the description of the dinner party given by Trimalchio, the incredibly wealthy and entirely credibly regular parvenu, an entertainment which is a veritable miracle of extravagant bad taste, which even Mr. Cecil de Mille would find difficult to rival. This the rest from the editing of the over cantious publisher, but the subsequent omission of the chapters $6 and $2 complete is hardly an act which will recommend it self to the judicious and exacting reader. To be sure, these passages...
...aside from any organized attempt on the part of undergraduates to make the existence of the parvenu less uncongenial, there should be some grain of graduates of Harvard College in each professional school who could by their knowledge of Harvard and Cambridge make life less difficult, less a nightmare for these new comers. If that is impossible, then the only alternative is the continued existence of such things as the Business School Club...
Miss TIVERTON GOES OUT- Anonymous-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Juliet, the Alice-in-Wonderland member of a parvenu family, blunders through subtle tragedies until the omnipresent influence of next-door Miss Tiverton, the "real thing" personified, aids her sensitiveness to give her that sense of personal reality which is salvation. The flowering of Juliet is accompanied by intimate, memorable portraits: Angela, drifting through life in search of something upon which to "settle"; Leslie, reminiscent of "a whipped puppy and a grocer's assistant in his Sunday best"; Juliet's father who uses "men's words" and hates Miss...