Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contents were snob-appeal who-was-seen-with-whom-where-when articles and pictures, fashion gossip, etc., and a calendar listing events in Eastern cities...
...Middle Western college student talks to him about the rights of neutrals rather than about women. Other college students let him go as a bloody snob. The Boston city father labels him a terror, to be put down with tear-gas and billies on a balmy spring evening...
...friends last week were willing to bet that Jack Crocker, no snob, would get on well at snobbish Groton. One of his chief problems will be to satisfy old Groton boys, whose sons have always had first chance to be admitted to Groton, and still make it a representative institution. Already there are so many sons of old Groton boys (including 16 Roosevelts) that they form almost two-thirds of Groton's enrollment...
Clifton Webb carries off the acting honors in his portrayal of John Worthing, who leads a double life as a city rake and grave country gentleman. As the sarcastic and mercenary old snob, Lady Bracknell, Estelle Winwood gives her usual competent performance. Hope Williams is excellent in a rather slim and thankless part...
...look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw...