Word: snobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognize this fact, we might have less tearful hand wringing about "the fate of the humanities." The truth of the matter is that much of what passes for appreciation of the arts and letters in some circles is a combination of antiquarianism, a collector's instinct, and the old snob appeal of a 'gentleman's education." The academic people who pander to these tastes to my mind do a positive disservice to the humanistic tradition, which is, is fact, the tradition of the continuing triumphs of the creative human spirit...
...Prestige foods (caviar, truffles, expensive but smelly cheeses, vintage wines), often bought in large part for their snob appeal...
This neat welding of snob appeal on to a cheap car was achieved by Manhattan Adman David Ogilvy, who had also dreamed up the eye patch for the much-copied "man in the Hathaway shirt" (TIME, June 23). No shy huckster, British-born Ogilvy appeared several months ago as the male model in his ads for Helena Rubinstein cosmetics (see cut). But at least one reader did not approve of his latest effort. When he saw the Austin ad, the Rev. John Crocker, headmaster of Groton (tuition and residence: $1,750), said: "It's all news...
...with their "beercasting" because "they need a new crop of drinkers to replace chronic alcoholics." The witnesses also objected that TV advertising plays up the creamy frothiness of beer and ignores its alcoholic content. Dr. J. Raymond Schmidt, of the International Order of Good Templars, expressing fear of the snob appeal of TV, told a pathetic story of "a little tot who says to her mother, 'Why don't you drink such-and-such a beer like the fashionable ladies do?'" Questioning developed that Crusader Schmidt did not have too much firsthand knowledge of the effects...
THERE was a day, however, when Romanoff's was faced with A ruin by the very snob appeal that had helped make it famous. The original restaurant, which had a front room and a back room, in time became such a reviewing stand for the great that if any eminent patron was not given one of the five tables in the front room he would leave. Inasmuch as almost every customer considered himself entitled to one of these tables, and no one wanted to be seen alive in the back room, the seating problem became acute. In 1950, Romanoff...