Word: snobs
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...Such a snob on the half-shell could only have been dredged by a greatly gifted hand. Yet Cole Porter's Tale of the Oyster has never been published. Nor, until now, has it ever been recorded. It is only remembered by those Broadway theatergoers who, in 1929, happened to see Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen...
Within the sylvan secrecy of Bohemian Grove, 75 miles north of San Francisco, there is a spot almost equidistant from the Russian River and Snob Hill Trail. It is called Cave Man Camp. There, for two days last week, Barry Goldwater slipped gratefully into seclusion, surrounded by centuries-old redwoods, water-lily-carpeted ponds, and a covey of U.S. millionaires and influentials, Republican and Democratic, who like to strip to their skivvies, swig Scotch in the sun, and forget their troubles...
...recommends just that in an introduction where he says, ironically, that it "may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Take his account of Scott Fitzgerald. The indictment-by-anecdote is irresistibly funny, but was the author of The Great Gatsby such a petulant clown, fatuous snob, and pathetic simpleton about...
...these characters and many more are duly set in motion as Bradwell Tolliver, a native son who is now a successful Hollywood writer, cases Fiddlersburg for material for the film, and simultaneously seeks the springs of his own perjured promise. A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth...
...girls meet in an upper East Side "snob hatchery...