Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprisal. He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees it. Of a male celebrity who strode into church one midwinter morning wearing sun glasses, Allen grated: "He's afraid God might recognize him and ask him for an autograph." Of a snob-noxious Hollywood character traveling with his "secretary," he murmured acidly: "He's traveling à la tart...
...newcomer to Dublin, Mary treasured a cigaret butt Yeats had thrown away, went to every performance of his plays, watched awestruck as he passed on the street, "strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...
...appalling," grumbled H. G. Wells, "that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob," Sir Samuel Hoare should be named British Ambassador to Spain. Wells was not the only one to wince. The nauseous memory of the Hoare-Laval Deal to appease Mussolini (1935) was still fresh. That of the Hitler-sweetening at Munich was even fresher. In 1940 Britain needed someone to talk straight, not sweet, to Spain's Franco. Sir Samuel hardly seemed the man. He had passed "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin," said a wag, "without discernible effect upon his condition...
Stressing the fact that until recently the study of the humanities was virtually restricted to a small leisure class, Conant urged that this field should now "be stripped as far as possible of the snob appeal so characteristic of so much of it in the past...
...Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think what I might have become," he says, "hand I followed most of the other 'Gretties' to Harvard." From biography of W. Averell Harriman, Life Magazine, December...