Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...careful young banker-snob, sent to manage the firm's Palm Beach branch, makes a "success" at the expense of everything...
Proustians, whose numbers are growing in all Western lands, say that the late great Marcel Proust (died Nov. 18, 1922), half-Jew, half-snob, wholehearted rememberer of his past, was the ranking writer of his time. With U. S. publication of The Past Recaptured, seventh and last part of his gigantic "novel," The Remembrance of Things Past, which crept into print in France from 1913 to 1926, U. S. Proustians may now read their Bible from Genesis to Revelations, without benefit of dictionary...
...plans. But Congressman Mills, for all his knowledge and dexterity with figures, had a manner that got him into ill favor with his colleagues, antagonized those with whom he had to work. He treated them with intellectual and social contempt, scorned their arguments? a legislative snob. Though his good friend Speaker Longworth declared he had "the best knowledge of national taxation of anyone in either house of Congress" his superciliousness in using that knowledge made him many a good enemy...
...scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they met some royalty a-walking, Beethoven barged right through the middle of them, snorting plebeian resentment, while Goethe stood hat in hand by the roadside, bowing, murmuring, "Your Highness! Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply...
...universities and education and lack of culture, will say that such pedantry makes me mad clear through. Why in the name of progress don't they get a red-blooded go-getter to investigate the colleges and their systems and what they produce and not some European-leaning snob who should have no place in a land where success and not birth is the measure...