Word: snobbish
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...Quakers, plus the militant zeal and unselfish devotion of those shock troops of the Lord-the Salvation Army, who fight in the trenches of sin's no-man's land to reclaim the tortured souls and clothe the naked bodies of those whom the rest of a snobbish world forgot...
...Baths Every Week." Vogue was not always strictly a woman's magazine. Born in the '90s, it was at first a thin, snobbish weekly beamed at socialites and full of socialite-weight stuff. One early issue, peering snootily over its lorgnette, inquired: "Now that the masses take baths every week, how can one ever distinguish the gentleman?" For years Vogue carried a stock feature labeled "The Well-Dressed...
Europe's Magic Touch. But struggling U.S. maestros think the trouble is just snobbish lack of admiration for native talent. They point to an undeniable fact: U.S. symphony orchestras frequently pass up American conductors for colorful Europeans who have neither outstanding talent nor great experience. (Even the undeniably gifted Leopold Stokowski had only conducted a symphony orchestra once or twice before in his life, when, in 1909, he was appointed chief of the Cincinnati Symphony.) San Francisco-born Alfred Wallenstein and Kansas-born Karl Krueger lack neither talent nor experience. Wallenstein started his career as an infant-prodigy cellist...
...death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
...Study. There is no "typical" British pub, but the pub is typical of Britain. The socially snobbish do not frequent pubs. The rich drink at home or in their clubs. But not the little people - the ones who angrily withstand blitzes, who keep the mills running, the crops harvested, the ships sailing, Britain going...