Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he opened a restaurant in Baden-Baden, the Kurhaus. He boasted that he never forgot a face. But the éclat which attached itself to his restaurant requires a more complete explanation. César Ritz read faces as well as remembering them; he was an instinctive & selective snob, one of those likeable snobs whose hauteur is inherent; he did not consciously single out his richer patrons for special attention. Nonetheless it was the epicures who remembered him, and the princes and the millionaires. Other people were a little frightened by M. Ritz, even intimidated by his martial cognomen...
...Reilly, Yale '27: "If you have a good definition of a snob, you can quote me as saying that is what a Harvard...
...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...
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...nine formed company front at the barrier, then off they dashed. Ahead of the race shot Miss Star, soon passed by Baffling. Speeding down the backstretch, Epinard was plainly "pocketed" just back of Baffling and Zev. Miss Star, Snob II and Wise Counsellor were hunched next...