Word: snob
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...sluggishly melodramatic Paris sequences, Clifton Webb is an amusing old expatriate snob, Herbert Marshall plays Mr. Maugham himself and Anne Baxter is a frantically unhappy girl who takes to drink in low Apache dives. Elsa Lanchester is refreshingly expert in a tiny comedy...
...name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...
...testimony, Balzac's load of debt from his business failures and love of high living seems to have driven him on to writing as much as women or the urge to power. The ill-mannered, unkempt son of a tight-fisted petit bourgeois, he was at heart a snob and a social climber who faked a claim to nobility. To keep up with the post-Napoleonic Joneses, Balzac sat at his table for twelve hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that publishers bought and paid...
...glittering sayings ("Experience . . . is simply the name men give to their mistakes"; "I can resist everything except temptation"). It has some of the best fooling and chatter that Wilde, a master of both, ever wrote. It brings to high life a touch of style and more than touch of snob appeal. All this pleasantly gilds its tale of a Woman with a Past who Lady Windermere, not knowing it was her own mother, thought was carrying on with her husband; .and who smirched her reputation a second time to save her daughter...
...entice us with higher snobbery," he added, looking at Chicago's chancellor, "for if we can all have knowledge for the asking, its snob value is very small...