Word: snobbish
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...thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these gentle snobbish strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar tycoon's party next door, does not know that she is married. Wandering into the second act set, a superb garden with two great oaks and gardenia roses, Miss...
...carbon copy. It is Forty-Second Street in sables. All dance directors in the cinema are serious and frenetic artists but Clark Gable is more morbidly devoted to his routines than Warner Baxter in Warner Brothers musicals. Franchot Tone takes his burlesque girl to his country home with more snobbish head-wagglings than those used for similar purposes by Buddy Rogers in Take a Chance. In her serious characterization of Janie Barlow as an inspired, warm-hearted runaway angel, Joan Crawford makes thoroughly apparent the fact that she is now abler as an actress than as a dancer. Good shots...
...financial and social disadvantage, can fit into the private university that is composed in large part of prep school men. The answer is not that the private college should adept a more rigid policy of exclusion which would thus tend to make it over more undemocratic and snobbish, but that it should make an effect to preserve an intelligently worked out proportion between the two groups of entreats a preparation which, other considerations aside, would not put the high school man in such a minority that he would feel hopelessly overwhelmed. The Princetonian
...make money out of near-beer, malt syrup, and back to Repeal. Meantime he has carried on the Busch tradition of generosity (generosity is made of rubber: one of his servants died in 1929 and left him $19,000). Somewhat high-eyebrowed by some of St. Louis' more snobbish socialites, the Busches never got into the St. Louis Country Club, but started their own Bridle Spur Hunt Club which developed a swankier waiting list. August's son. August Jr. is vice president of the company but August himself is still the sidewhiskered patriarch of U. S. beer, hurling...
Still largely a pet of the rich, the Pekingese is regarded by most nonowners as a snobbish, fragile toy. But its fanciers claim for it intelligence, warmheartedness, loyalty and all the courage of that far-off, amorous lion...