Word: snobbish
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...brewery-owner John Smith has married "one" Jim Jones, or words to that effect? Why not just call the young man "Jim Jones" and let it go at that? More than likely he belongs to the same social strata of society as the lady he marries. Such terms sound snobbish and affected to unassuming American ears. And they do not sound like the best of English either...
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...plain man, neither snobbish nor proud, and content to be so. As such I thank you for publishing the letter [TIME, May 23] in which Mr. Herbert Milton Maxwell so cogently points out that since the President of Mexico has a private train costing ?375,000 our own President should not go about as might a "drummer" or "traveling salesman...
...past years Harvard men were much more snobbish than they are now, although some of them are still pretty bad" is the opinion of T. J. Phelps, the white haired porter in the Varsity Club, divulged to a CRIMSON reporter with some hesitation. Mr. Phelps has been steward of the Varsity Club for the past 22 years. This year he bears the title of porter of that same organization...
...Bourdon, the boys were more friendly with each other than they now are. Each classmate knew every other classmate, and at the time of graduation, pictures of every member of the class were purchased by all. I thing those boys were more democratic than this generation is. The snobbish boy was then the exception; now, it seems, his is the rule. Also, when I came to Harvard, there certainly was plenty of liquor. They could let it be seen then, you know, and it was! There were bottles everywhere: most of them empty...