Word: snobbish
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...grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory...
...article concludes with the charge that college men "can't forget their college or deflate their snobbish exaggeration of the worth of their diploma. The showing of the graduates contrasts very poorly with that of non-graduates. I know; I've been watching them for years...
...Princeton, the speech which he will deliver to his brother Phi Betas, an interesting item appeared in the press. Half of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa men this year are Jews-five of the eight juniors elected, and a large portion of the 22 seniors. Despite the snobbish evidences of class prejudice which, at such racially-tinged colleges as Harvard, as once at Columbia, the Nordic students betray toward their cleverer competitors such men as Bleiweiss, Stamm, Bernstein, Sobell, Isaacs, Swirske, Abrahams and Solomon, won their places by merit...
...Campus Flirt (Bebe Daniels). Herein a snobbish young lady is levelled down to democratic normalcy by collegiate pranks known only to cinema directors. After the reform, she blossoms forth as athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...
...cabbage constitutes the favorite dish. Those who have given up through a growing fastidiousness this succulent indulgence need no longer conceal their weakness or camouflage it by a French menu. Democracy has justified them, and from henceforth the great majority, washed or unwashed, will never be abashed by snobbish ecstasies over caviar or pulcinelli. The people have voted and cabbage is the king of the cafe...