Word: snobbed
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...lakefront tent at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, another event began: the sale of the late Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, organized by Christie's rival auction house Sotheby's. Here was a nominal contrast at least, since though everyone admires Van Gogh, none but a snob or a fantasist (not that we are short of either) could feel much nostalgia for Wallis Simpson and her husband, who abdicated the throne of England in 1936 and was obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi sympathies. Nevertheless, this pair...
Recalling her family's reaction when she was accepted to Harvard, Dynarski says, "They were proud. But with my sisters there was hostility. I got baited [then] and even more so now. I was like them when I came in; now I get ragged on for being a Harvard snob...
...going back to take another look: to see if I made the right call 21 months ago, to see if I was a snob...
...deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply S, just in case the girl...
Doole would appear from time to time at CIA bases from Vientiane to Panama City, but he stayed aloof from the pilots, many of whom regarded him as a bit of a snob. "I never saw the man without a tie on," scoffs one. Doole played bridge, flew airplanes and did business deals the same way: slowly and deliberately. "The Chinese liked to negotiate with him," recalls a former CIA official. "He was polite; he never showed any excitement. But he was tough...