Word: snobbishness
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...feudal period to the totalitarian state, with a vast display of scholarship, innumerable quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion of all Dr. Vagts's scholarship: there...
...play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...
...Albert L&233;vitt was again a public official by the next year, when President Roosevelt sent him to the remote Virgin Islands as a judge. When he mounted the bench Mr. L&233;vitt told native judges who led lonely lives, not to mind if he appeared snobbish. Judge L&233;vitt was soon trying to subpoena Acting Governor Robert Herrick. After that he angrily charged Provisional Governor Lawrence W. Cramer with interference in the court, wrote out his resignation. Frustrated but undaunted, Mr. L&233;vitt returned to the U. S. and his old job in the Department...
Langdon Towne returned to Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will...
Like many good and patient men, Cordell Hull has played in good luck. In spite of his weakness in subordinates, when his chance came he had in Sumner Welles -wasp-waisted, double-breasted, Groton and Harvard, snobbish, capable and stiff-about the best man he could have had to take to Buenos Aires. In the long neglected field of Latin-American diplomacy, Sumner Welles is one of the few trained experts of the U. S.-a veteran of negotiations in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a man liked by South American diplomats because he years...