Word: snobbishness
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Daily News to the season's most snobbish editorial, which exclaimed through eight paragraphs how wonderfully American it was that immigrants' families could marry into socialites' families...
...mother of Actress-Author (In Bed We Cry) Ilka, has edited Vogue ever since 1914, five years after the late Conde Nast bought it. In & out of her chartreuse-and-beige office, she is a hard-to-please autocrat ("my wastebasket is my strongest ally"). Her philosophy is frankly snobbish: "We are reflecting the way of life of people with wealth and taste and social position." To help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank...
Judge Ford conferred briefly with the court clerk. Then he fined Chicago-born, snobbish Douglas Chandler $10,000 and sentenced him to life imprisonment...
...said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there are other considerations." In the American Club, U.S. businessmen snickered knowingly over the old unprintable gags, as they followed Eva in the daily papers. And befurred society women stopped time & again...
...last week, Britain's hard-pressed aristocracy forgot their troubles and the Labor Government, put on their fanciest duds, and turned out en masse on the broad banks of the Thames at Eton. They were there to celebrate the 500th birthday* of Britain's biggest, most snobbish and most influential public (i.e., private) school...