Word: snobbish
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...tease them into falling in love seems absurd. And when it comes down to imploring a Cape Cod or a Blue Point to notice the existence of the bourgeoise such as the East River family, or the "sidey" Chesapeakes, the task appears wholly ridiculous. Oysters are very snobbish and clannish. A Cape Cod never by any chance received an equally aristocratic Blue Point, and vice versa. Nevertheless, the State Conservation Commission is determined to democratize oysterdom...
...fact, the whole production, coming after Miss Taylor's sunny California radiance, seems bathed in a quiet, phosphorescent glow. Miss Keener, in endeavoring to portray the little Irish-American girl who-flung into the center of a snobbish English household-shows up its caddishness and wins a handsome Cholly-boy for herself, handles her part with kid gloves...
Associated with him in the purchase are the owners of the Yorkshire Post, a daily in the north country, less snobbish but no less Tory...
...drama, this American comedy of manners was first produced in 1840 when the metropolis was only beginning to bustle. Its revival demonstrates how far the Theatre has advanced since its so-called Golden Age. Merely to recite its plot indicates that the very cinema has progressed beyond this stage. Snobbish Mrs. Tiffany, by aping the extravagances of French society, drives her husband into forging. That puts him in the power of a confidential clerk; but stay! he is saved in the last act by an old friend, a wealthy upstate farmer...
...fresh winds from the West are blowing much that is "sticky" and snobbish out of Oxford, they are, nevertheless, distasteful to sensitive English nostrils. And from this side of the water a certain amount of the yearly current of American students in England is being diverted from Oxford by the American atmosphere already there...