Word: snob
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...scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they met some royalty a-walking, Beethoven barged right through the middle of them, snorting plebeian resentment, while Goethe stood hat in hand by the roadside, bowing, murmuring, "Your Highness! Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply...
...Getteress v. Snob...
...universities and education and lack of culture, will say that such pedantry makes me mad clear through. Why in the name of progress don't they get a red-blooded go-getter to investigate the colleges and their systems and what they produce and not some European-leaning snob who should have no place in a land where success and not birth is the measure...
Died. Clarence Kummer, 31, jockey who won many a great horserace on Man O' War, Exterminator, Audacious. Snob II, Ladkin; of pneumonia after weakening his vitality by dieting; in Jamaica, L. I. Disqualified in 1927 for rough riding, he was reinstated, rode his last race...
That is an entertaining subject which the young gentlemen of Harvard and Cornell will debate next Saturday night at 9.30: "Resolved, that the foreign indictment of American culture is justified." As Prof. ("Be a Snob") Rogers of M.I.T. will preside, and the discussion will be broadcast, a large unseen audience will attend. It is gratifying to know that the Crimson will uphold our culture...