Word: parvenues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio informs them that the doors are charged with death-dealing electricity, that there are cocktails in the kitchen and poison on the mantelpiece, that they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social parvenu. The banker kills himself by accident while trying to poison the rest of the company. Curiosity and alarm set others to bickering and snarling. They drop off one by one, leaving only the journalist (Donald Cook) and his inamorata (Genevieve Tobin...
...competition is still a byword in U. S. business. These plutocrats sometimes had to wait a generation-seldom more-before high society accepted them. "A Jay Gould, widely feared, might be excluded from a fashionable yacht club, but his son George was easily admitted. The profane and scornful old parvenu Cornelius Vander Bilt was unthinkable in a parlor: but his grandson William K. Vanderbilt would see all doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor...
...Bolshevism . . . Christian morality is, like every morality, renunciation and nothing else. . . . Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. . . . Finance-Socialists and trust magnates like Morgan and Kreuger correspond absolutely to the mass-leaders of Labour parties and the Russian economic commissars: dealer-natures with the same parvenu tastes. . . . All really great leaders in history go 'Right' however low the depths from which they have climbed...
...polo to join a local team, buys a $600,000 share of her father's brokerage business, secures an immense mansion. complete with servants and secretary (Mary Astor) in which to entertain her friends. The members of the Cass family are congratulating themselves on having swindled a foolish parvenu when the admirer whom Polly Cass really likes shows them a copy of TIME, containing a picture of Bugs Ahearn and a story of his background under Crime. This document, a travesty on TIME, convinces the Casses they had best be rid of Bugs Ahearn. Simultaneously Bugs Ahearn learns that...