Word: parvenues
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...that once knew only fishing boats, as many as 80 yachts may lie at anchor. The narrow streets hum with Ferraris, Lancias, Mercedes and Aston Martins. To be seen at the wheel of a mere Jaguar or Austin-Healey is considered ordinary. To drive a Thunderbird is definitely parvenu...
...Review editor, fairly radiates integrity. He worships Partner Henry Knox, the kindly, austere senior who regards his firm as "a group of gentlemen loosely associated by a common enthusiasm for the practice of law," and has nothing but lofty contempt for Partner Sheridan Dale, the go-getting parvenu who thinks of his job as "big business...
Gleave is head of the Foreign Office's American desk (Maclean's old job). Like many of his kind, he is crushed beneath the upper millstone of parvenu wealth (which he despises) and the nether millstone of the privileged working class, symbolized by a State housing development which will take from him his mortgaged home. Gleave is in the grip of the constant, twitching fear that he and his family will fall into the anonymous abyss of "the proles." His wife has to do the cooking! Gleave is offered a job in commerce at five times his Foreign...
...Well, There It Is." In a sense, wealthy (endowment: $20 million plus an annual income from the Duke Endowment Trust) Duke is really not at all the parvenu it seems. Long before its Gothic towers rose on the empty fields along the western edge of Durham, N.C., the town already had a solid little liberal arts college named Trinity. Said the Trinity catalogue in 1892: "The society of Durham is cultured and elegant." Even more important, elegant Durham also had money. Tobacco Tycoon Washington Duke poured thousands into...
Marie and Gilles, two young lovers in a provincial French town, are fatuously devoted to each other. All that keeps them apart is the snobbery of Marie's parvenu mother. They contrive to meet with the help of an ugly and impoverished aristocrat named Agathe, who has been reduced to working as Marie's governess...