Word: snobbish
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Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
...good at." Ben's parents are drowned and he is taken in by a pious uncle who soon goes to a Mental Home for Clergymen. Befriended by the fashionable Mrs. Molly, Ben is sent off to school, studies for the ministry, is disgraced in his snobbish surroundings when cranky Miserable Sarah leaves her home in the village of Dirty Gut to visit...
...mother he has never seen. He knows nothing about the people in the house; they know all about him. In a flashback to the past, the story tells why. Karen is young, beautiful, intelligent, one of an English family so aristocratic that it can afford not to be snobbish. She is engaged to just the right man; he has gone to the Orient on business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes the fiance, Max, an intense French Jew, does not want...
...lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
...more tact and more charm which was to stand him in good stead when his diplomatic career began again. Nowadays Mrs. Phillips is rated rather snobbish, but obstinate would be a better word for it. She refuses to wear glasses although she is so shortsighted that she cannot recognize her best friends across a room. As his hostess in Washington when Woodrow Wilson called him back to the State Department just before the War, as his hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium...