Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper editors were quick to weigh them in Wet-and-Dry scales. Great were the stirrings among U. S. Drys, Consolidated, and U. S. Wets, Limited, to assemble debatable material to put before the commission. The President's legalistic examiners were lightly spoken of at Washington dinner tables as "highbrow highball homilecticians...
...Soul. Lowell Schmaltz puts in his list of "leading intellects" Anne Nichols, because, "say, the author of a play like Abie's Irish Rose, that can run five years, is in my mind-maybe it's highbrow and impractical to look at it that way, but the way I see it, she's comparable to any business magnate, and besides they say she's made as much money as Jack Dempsey...
...Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw any sound conclusions from this information. The weakness of Harvard in this line is, however, unmistakable--and rather curious considering that to the man in the street Harvard is synonymous with all that is highbrow. And yet here Harvard has a gigantic new Business School, and less courses in Greek than even Williams! --The Yale News...
...Bridges' verse, in truth, is, perhaps, a little top "highbrow" for the general public. Moreover, its prosody treats of stresses and not syllables. Nevertheless, his verse is recognized for its restraint, purity, precision and strength...
...played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories: a carpet sweeper, short skirts, silk hats, goggles, a radio, an electric heater, revolver shots, an automobile, a flashlight photograph...