Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Getteress v. Snob...
Died. Clarence Kummer, 31, jockey who won many a great horserace on Man O' War, Exterminator, Audacious. Snob II, Ladkin; of pneumonia after weakening his vitality by dieting; in Jamaica, L. I. Disqualified in 1927 for rough riding, he was reinstated, rode his last race...
That is an entertaining subject which the young gentlemen of Harvard and Cornell will debate next Saturday night at 9.30: "Resolved, that the foreign indictment of American culture is justified." As Prof. ("Be a Snob") Rogers of M.I.T. will preside, and the discussion will be broadcast, a large unseen audience will attend. It is gratifying to know that the Crimson will uphold our culture...
...Wilde is sparkling. Shaw reports the "maudlin pathos and inconceivable want of tact" of Wilde's brother Willie. Slily he says: "Oscar was not a man of bad character: you could have trusted him with a woman anywhere." Shaw did not like Wilde personally, considered him a "Dublin snob"; but when Shaw was trying to get signatures of London literary men to a petition for the reprieve of the Chicago anarchists (1885), Wilde was the only one who would sign. Says Shaw: "It secured my distinguished consideration for him for the rest of his life...