Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arts. Most of Maine's 1,408 students, one-third of whom are women, come from the State's farms and small towns. A student who dresses up is a sissy and one who fails to shout "Hello" at everyone he meets on the campus is a snob. Men wear corduroys and sweaters, add sheepskins and knee boots when it gets cold. For fun they go off on hunting & fishing trips, hoot and stamp their boots in Orono's lone cinema theatre. Each spring freshman and sophomore boys take three days off for their class fight. This...
...tendency of private education is to make insufferable little snobs of our offspring-not through the influence of the teachers but through the influence of other class-conscious pupils-and what is more intolerable (and intolerant) than a child-snob? But I would risk that (and it is a mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were...
TIME, March 12, glorifies Charles Dickens properly, but errs in attributing to "modern debunkers" a description of Dickens as "snob, sentimentalist and egotist." Those identical qualities of Dickens caused him to be kicked down the stairs of the Louisville Gait House in the late '60s. The manager of that famed hotel put his boot in Dickens' rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Realize that "George V is the most unassuming Englishman alive, not a snob, and speaker of probably the only unaccented English in the world. He runs with natural ability a job not of his own choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft...