Word: snobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...
...action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton's young sister Bessie and an admirer who has followed her to London. The crisis that brings them all into...
Just to assure readers of the CRIMSON that he was an utter ass, (as well as snob), he added an editor's note to one of the letters received criticizing his article. The letter concluded, "Boston, we agree, is the Hub of the Universe. Everything else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which...
...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...