Word: snob
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...same time substantiate most adequately their charge. Can such a phrase as: ". . . . of the ignorance, bad taste, jealousy, and Anglo-phobe tendencies, which are common to a considerable cross-section of the West"--can such a phrase be interpreted as anything but a foolish utterance of an insufferable snob...
...entire domestic staff for the household of a Chief of Police she got along beautifully till the Chief began to pat her on the back and his wife to bully her. But then young Otto came along again, still yearning. They were married in style. Tycoon Hellenberg, no snob, approved of his daughter-in-law, despised his attractive son as a shiftless waster. Susanne did her best to get Otto interested in business and succeeded fairly well, but she could not keep him from cheating. Finally she left him, went back to the bakery to live. There she thought...
...careful young banker-snob, sent to manage the firm's Palm Beach branch, makes a "success" at the expense of everything...
Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, wholehearted rememberer of his past, was the ranking writer of his time. With U. S. publication of The Past Recaptured, seventh and last part of his gigantic "novel," The Remembrance of Things Past, which crept into print in France from 1913 to 1926, U. S. Proustians may now read their Bible from Genesis to Revelations, without benefit of dictionary...
...plans. But Congressman Mills, for all his knowledge and dexterity with figures, had a manner that got him into ill favor with his colleagues, antagonized those with whom he had to work. He treated them with intellectual and social contempt, scorned their arguments? a legislative snob. Though his good friend Speaker Longworth declared he had "the best knowledge of national taxation of anyone in either house of Congress" his superciliousness in using that knowledge made him many a good enemy...