Word: sniffish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richelieu's owner, a Colonel Bemus, used to trot around to Sprague Warner's to sample before buying. Anything the sniffish colonel approved was dubbed "Richelieu" as a mark of distinction...
...Carefully sniffish toward anything "practical," Yale let its single college course in public-speaking lapse last year, met protests by pleading economy. Last week the Yale News, whose lively undergraduate chairman is Jonathan Brewster Bingham, youngest of the seven sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...
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