Word: snobbish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Code Hero is both a little snobbish and a little vague, but the test of the code is courage, and the essence of the code is conduct. Conduct, in Hemingway, is sometimes a question of how one behaves honorably toward another man or woman. More often, it is a question of how the good professional behaves within the rules of a game or the limits of a craft. All the how-to passages-how to land a fish, how to handle guns, how to work with a bull-have behind them the professional's pride of skill...
Scion of a wealthy landed Maryland family. Bruce led a Princeton campus revolt against the snobbish eating clubs, enlisted in World War I as a private, later won election to the Maryland assembly from a Jewish slum district, rolled up millions as a broker and entrepreneur (oil, race tracks, distilleries, newspapers), in World War II became chief of espionage and sabotage in Europe for the Office of Strategic Services, won military decorations from seven countries. As a postwar diplomat, lifetime Democrat Bruce helped to forge the Schuman Plan and European Defense Community. Last week the British could scarcely conceal their...
...father, and with her lives the fruit of that affair, her proudly loyal son. This son now meets the unawakened bride, and love flares up; the father meets the woman again, and love has its past-tense ardors; and at length the woman meets the bride's snobbish, small-minded mother and the groom's sophisticated one, in what is meant to be the last round in a bout between the free spirit and conformity...
Those who lived closest the attribute a small but perhaps can't change in his personality college days. Newell recall as being "somewhat snobbish beginning." By the end of the however, "he used to talk tutors on trains. He liked as and became deeply interested paper work." Nevertheless clear that Lodge intended to career in journalism as a spot to one in politics...
hinkty (Negro)-snobbish...