Word: snobs
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...Oliver, Stilbourne is an awful shambles from which he must escape. He is the classic adolescent-ruthless, secretive and vulnerable; few better studies have been written of his condition. He wrestles with sacred and profane loves, one represented by Imogen, a local beauty and culture snob who is headed for a cathedral marriage, and the other by Evie, the town crier's pretty daughter, a "secular" sexpot with eyes like black plums. For Oliver, a chapel-going apothecary's son, marriage is unthinkable with either, even when he gets Evie pregnant (or so she lets him think...
...group ranges from makers of garden tools, shoes and carpeting to a London manufacturer of crossbows and another that makes 10-ft.-tall toy elephants that move on battery power and cost $10,000 apiece. Heald warns each of his clients that, elephants and crossbows excepted, the days of snob appeal in the U.S. are over. "It is no longer enough to sell an item on the fact that it is made in Britain," says Heald...
...railway station. At Trinity, dons were gargling grace in two alternate systems of Latin pronunciation; the junior dean had to be eased out because, though his sermons were eloquent, he had become crippled by syphilis and had raped his daughter. The master was another kind of monster-a snob. Yet this cloister now housed some of the brightest spirits...
Novelist Gilbert is a journalist who won't admit it. The contrived, never-say-die plot of The Beautiful Life is simply a device to move his characters through the inner circle. Exclusive restaurants and discotheques, the Plaza, "molto snob" boutiques and hair salons, Parke-Bernet, Sutton Place, a round of Capotesque parties, and assorted Upper East Side bedrooms...
Nicolson never tried to disguise the fact that he was a member of the elite, and since he obviously felt that people outside that elite had something wrong with them, he frequently sounds like a crashing snob. He never truly cared for Mrs. Wallis Simpson, for example; he looked on her as an American social climber, though he faithfully recorded each of the many times he met her at parties. Like many Englishmen of his generation and class, he was troubled almost as deeply about the abdication as he was about Munich. "What is so tragic," he confided...