Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting that the two persons quoted in the Monday morning papers who seemed to agree with me, were both college officials. They knew what I was talking about. One of the them addition, a college president, sensed the use I was making of the word snob, that is, the word as ignorantly applied by people without manners, brains, or ambition to almost anybody who is not ashamed of possessing them or using them properly...
...snob. You will find it is just as easy to marry the boss' daughter as the stenographer. Dress, speak and act like a gentleman and you will be surprised at the amount of murder you can get away with. Never buy a suit of clothes unless you can get an extra pair of trousers. Keep one suit of clothes pressed every week. Never buy shoes unless you buy shoe trees for them. Keep them shined, shave yourself and never wear the same collar at night which you wear...
...want to preach to you the gospel of being a snob--not allowing yourself to drop in speech, manners and general intelligence, and going to the level of the crowd that hasn't had the opportunities you have had. Belong to the crowd that does belong, or to the crowd that doesn't belong? That's the question...
John Gilbert has been connected with the theatre all his life. With his mother, an actress, he grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly...
...child herself, for all her motherly ways. Baby Chipstone was her own brother, and her parents' chief bone of contention. Then there were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian brother and sister, the one with a tendency toward acrobatics, the other toward hysterics...