Word: snobbish
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Vassar women have at various times been called irreverent, intellectual, rich, mannish, able, unpractical, snobbish, radical, dowdy, fast. But this week Matthew Vassar could have read a reassuring report on how Vassar women turn out in the long run. In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the college published a book (Vassar Women-$2.50) giving an account of itself and its graduates...
...into a commodity by calling it swing, a young Frenchman named Panassic wrote a book called Hot Jazz, which immediately caused a minor intellectual revolution in certain circles. Formerly, jazz had been for the common herd; now, with the exception of an isolated group of die-hards, the old snobbish attitude was thrown over, and the literati took record collecting and jazz criticism under their collective wing...
Recent blasts from the "Daily Princetonian" show that its new board of editor is adopting a more wide-awake attitude toward age-old problems down at Nassau. First came a body blow at a snobbish and impractical club system, and along with it an appeal for a House Plan like Harvard's and Yale's. The late President Wilson gave the college a chance for such an arrangement years ago, but Princetonian sentiment quickly smothered the whole idea...
Douglas Caise's parents were both brilliant students at Oxford, but marriage, children, their own horror of life soon relegated them to a small town in Cornwall, where Mr. Caise ran the museum. Earnest, atrophied, intellectually snobbish, they did the best they knew how for their children. For Douglas, it was a poor best...
...Snob. At Eton, Edward Wood made a scholastic record his father was proud of. At Christ Church, Oxford, he was equally studious in modern history. Unlike many a future British statesman, he took no interest in politics at Oxford. But in his schooling he acquired neither the snobbish "Eton manner" nor the equally snobbish Oxonian accent...