Word: polloi
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...supreme moments of a rich young girl's life is her debut-year tour of the festivals: the Battle of the Flowers Parade in San Antonio, the Texas Rose Festival in Tyler, the Buccaneer Days in Corpus Christi, where the girls are wheeled around on carts while hoi polloi pay to watch the spectacle. These dresses, talismans of youth and beauty, are preserved forever, or until they take up too much house room. Museums cannot take them all. The Witte Museum in San Antonio, for example, has 250 gowns and now accepts only three a year, provided they arrive with...
...well-to-do had paid $99 for harborside hotel rooms, and the hoi polloi jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
...second two miles, Fitzsimmons worked his way through the hoi polloi to join his teammates, and the four blasted ahead of their competition to give the Herd an insurmountable advantage...
...From hoi polloi to hoity-toity...
Carter is not exactly a grand old English name. The first Carters were, of course, carters, medieval truck drivers. Yet despite the family's hoi-polloi origins and plain-folks posture, Jimmy Carter's family tree turns out to have some hoity-toity upper limbs. The President is related to, among others, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington, three other previous Presidents and the first American millionaire...