Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
...East 77th Street and squire Finch's pretty girls around the town without a chaperone (at Finch a date is known as "the little man"). Mrs. Cosgrave does not expect her new plan to change the character of her school. Twinkles she: "Finch will continue to have snob appeal...
When H. L. Mencken called Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee an ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...
...tabloid snob-gossip's dream week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 28, the country's best-known young multimillionaire sportsman, was sued for divorce in New York by Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt (charges: adultery with two corespondents). Said Alfred's mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, who has been married four times: "I wouldn't give much for him if he didn't. After all, he's a normal young man and he has been separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly...
...illness a few weeks ago waged a winning battle against pedagogic dullness in the education of young engineers and scientists; in Cambridge, Mass. For one short week in 1929, "Tubby" became, in his own words, "the most notorious man in America" for advising a graduating class to "be a snob and marry the boss's daughter"; ten years later he reversed himself: "The young man should have married the stenographer. She has a job and the boss's daughter is broke...