Word: poseur
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College develops taste because a man has his best chance there of mingling with those of high cultural standards. By this is implied nothing artificial or poseur, but a natural, easy habit of seeing the best things in their best lights, and through an atmosphere of ideas. After college these opportunities come rarely to the American. Community life not being, as a rule, culturally bracing, the influences which from taste are few. If a man doesn't meet them in college he seldom meets them anywhere. With a foundation for the principles of taste no small part...
...this broken-down Napoleon sits in his back yard, surrounded by as many private detectives as an Attorney General or a Pittsburgh millionaire. It must be a bitter pill for the great Poseur to have to pretend a demure shyness to tempt the photographers Lo, he used to treat Gott with condescension. But now he even bores the League of Nations. No one cares what becomes of him. He is de trop, passe...