Word: snobbish
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...only what jet-setters were wearing but what they were doing while wearing it. A letter to his father explained his aims: "WWD must be alive in this alive business, WWD must be controversial in this controversial business, WWD must be smart and snobby in this smart and snobbish business." In late 1960, John returned to New York to become publisher...
...greatest problem of the Tories is, as usual, Ted Heath. A bachelor at 53, he is hardly a Trudeau-like swinger. The son of a carpenter, he is often put down as an arriviste by the snobbish Tory squirearchy, and resented as overly stuffy by workingmen. An uninspired orator, he so lacks appeal that he has rarely registered more than 30% approval in the polls. "Despite all the publicity for him," a leading Tory complains, "he still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson...
...Quite frankly." O'Malley began, "the reason professional people have not been organized is a very snobbish one... Part of your pay check has been the fact that you work for Harvard. That's fine...
...without a token show of concern for the plight of Sullivan and his football club. They had to. They were among the people who had disapproved of Harvard's refusal to loan its Stadium to the Patriots until a stadium could be built. Harvard was called arrogant, snobbish, and lacking in community interest. The councillors, at least for the record, had to prove that they weren't quite as harsh...
Like most black college students of his day, Miller's background was solidly middle class. His father was a supervisor in the Post Office. his mother had been born into Boston's small black middle class. Though financially belonging to that class. the Miller family scorned its snobbish social practices: the Miller children-Mel has two sisters and three brothers, one of whom. Jack. is vice-president and business manager of the paper-grew up with a wide variety of friends in a Roxbury that was predominantly white. Still young, Mel Miller seemed to be following a path that...