Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apologies for that dazzling snob the late Lord Curzon there is no end.* Last week, however, the Dowager Countess of Minto, whose husband was Curzon's immediate successor as Viceroy of India, released memoirs in which she raked Curzon of Kedleston as only an outraged peeress can without breach of taste...
...Great Snob Curzon had no pity on poor horsy Minto. The Countess, again quoting her late husband's diary, records an inimitable Curzon snub to the new Viceroy as he reached India...
Smith. In Education last June Constance M. McCullough of University of Minnesota, having quizzed 100 private girls' schools and 100 public high schools, inferred that Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and their sisters are snob colleges. Her evidence: only 15% of Bryn Mawr's freshmen are admitted directly from public schools; only 20% of Vassar's, 25% of Smith...
Another of these degrees went to Professor Rogers, who several years ago horrified local circles by advocating the young business man to marry the boss's daughter, and to be a snob. Acknowledging the award, Mr. Rogers said: "I want to say first of all a few words to my mother in Walla Walla. I got fouled in the second round and he refuses to give me a return bout." Another touch of humor which the reunioning classes have loft for reminiscence next year was Joseph Seabury's comment the other night to 1904 that he had been reading...
Galleryites who have tired of the French and their U. S. imitators will welcome his assurance that the "snob spirit" which made native painters "ashamed of their heritage and environment" is passing, will be inclined to agree with his prophecy of the return of representationalism...