Word: snobbish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most popular of all were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan...
While at Harvard, he attacked the College's clubs as "snobbish." The seeds for his political views also bloomed. He bucked considerable University pressure to gain permission for well-known radicals to address undergraduates...
...Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut, smear and slander." In California, Republican Nixon said Stevenson was "snide and snobbish...
...Simple Tune. All month long, Leo acts as Ted's and Marian's go-between, carrying the messages which Marian says are business arrangements. Not even Marian's hardboiled, matchmaking mother guesses that the young boy may be the ruin of her snobbish plans. And when one day Leo glimpses a few lines in one of Marian's letters ("Darling, darling, darling, same time, same place, this evening"), and is struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could...
...freshmen, but is also an insult to the members of Eliot House. Especially to those of us who have helped to make up the character of this House for the past three years and have felt some pride in doing so, the application of such adjectives as "snobbish," and "aristocratic" is personally offensive...