Word: snobbish
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...resident of Hollis Hall received executive permission to tother his favorite cow on sacred ground not far from his corner room. And, indeed, this could hardly be construct as strange when our renowned historians tell us that, all gossip to the contrary, Harvard's Yard, long criticized for its snobbish and aristocratic name, was once just what that name did mean. For in the days of much Latin and little English, all gootle and healthie colleges did have a central plotted upon which fed the domestic servants of all the local savants, and thus did the name of "cowyard...
...Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port Jervis, N. Y. For generations their interests have lain cross-country and down the Hudson toward New York rather than down the Delaware toward Philadelphia. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's money came from an old New York fortune. Snobbish Philadelphia hates the Pinchots because their social life centres in Manhattan, where Mrs. Pinchot, as a descendant of Peter Cooper, can indulge with impunity her eccentricities against a Colony Club background. It was to New York, not Philadelphia, that Governor Pinchot traveled last winter for hospital care when he was down...
...were not for his preoccupation with snobbish prose, Author Cabell might be capable of really savage satire. Even in his "habitual vein of romantic irony" he sometimes drops into a phrase that would have given even Jonathan Swift pause, as when he speaks of physical love as "a conjuncture of sewer pipes." But generally Cabell is content to continue astounding the bourgeois by his own superior urbanity. His intelligence and taste alike are now for most readers hopelessly buried under the tricks and oddities of a lush Cabellowing style...
...defend the adequacy of rule by gentleman's thumb has been during the recent year of recrimination the duty of Richard Whitney, himself unmistakably a gentleman. That duty he prepared to perform in Washington this week for possibly the last time. For the Senate of the United States, snobbish though it is concerning itself, refuses to recognize gentleman-as-such and is about to entertain a bill which would give the Government more actual rule than any previous bill over not only the New York Stock Exchange and the dozens of other exchanges throughout the land but also over...
...brewer; by his own hand (pistol), following long illness; in his palatial home at Grant's Farm outside St. Louis. Son of Founder Adolphus of the Anheuser-Busch brewery (Bndweiser), "Gussie" Busch carried the family business safely through Prohibition, continued the family tradition of liberal philanthropy. Snubbed by snobbish socialites, he and his family attained an enviable social standing without their help. For the last several months Brewer Busch had been ridden by heart trouble and gout...