Word: snob
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...Dorsey answered with feeling: "Good God, I hope we never become one." His style is the style of Arunah Shepherdson Abell, the vagabond printer who started the Sun in 1837 and whose descendants are still on the board. The paper remains aloof, aristocratic, oldfashioned, proud and something of a snob-just the way Baltimoreans like...
...world of Henry James. O'Hara has an idiomatic acquaintance with far more people on far more different levels of society than James ever did-chauffeurs, part-time ladies' maids, broken-down movie directors, cops, smalltown bankers, and so on. But like James, he is a snob and a firm believer that a man's life can best be mirrored in social surfaces. James's rich Americans are dazzled by Europe but never really escape America; O'Hara's favorite characters, however upwardly mobile, never really escape Gibbsville...
...MUSIC ROOM. Another fine film from India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy): the tragedy of a snob who dissipates a fortune to impress a man he despises...
...salt. His squad mates love to hear stories of Pip's filthy-rich upbringing in a stately 18th century manor, couldn't care less when he tries to ignite their class feeling with tales of the French Revolution, and remain stubbornly suspicious of him as a snob who is slumming...
...Frederic Collins Hooper, 71, managing director since 1948 of Britain's Schweppes Ltd. (quinine water, Bitter Lemon), a bubbly Londoner who left a successful chain store busi ness to put some fizz in the 169-year-old mixer maker, quintupled Schweppes's output and profit with snob appeal advertising featuring Commander Whitehead among the Yanks and veddy British "Schweppigrams" at home;* of a probable heart attack; in London...