Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smoked out, Colonel Bingham was unrepentant. "I stand by every word," he said. "Speaking as the perfect snob,* I contend that old army tradition-call it old-school-tie tradition if you like-has much to recommend it. . . . Every army must be run on autocratic, as distinct from democratic, principles." He did not recall that the officers of two of the world's most successful armies, Napoleon's and Hitler's, were almost all recruited from the working classes...
...Snob apparently derives from S. Nob. (Sine Nobilitate), which was appended to names of commoners attending English schools and colleges before the 18th Century, when education was commonly regarded as the prerogative of aristocracy...
...will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics, and he will embrace all these concepts--he will picture the typical Harvard student as a wealthy young snob, driving madly to a deb party in his sixteen cylinder-convertible, and distributing communist literature as he goes...
...Snob. At Eton, Edward Wood made a scholastic record his father was proud of. At Christ Church, Oxford, he was equally studious in modern history. Unlike many a future British statesman, he took no interest in politics at Oxford. But in his schooling he acquired neither the snobbish "Eton manner" nor the equally snobbish Oxonian accent...