Word: snob
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...wasn't the only one that showed emotion. Michaels sobbed openly when he had finished his speech, and Denham, the editor, could not speak for the tears that choked his voice. Gus felt awfully sorry for him. He had always suspected Denham of being something of a snob...
...apologies for that dazzling snob the late Lord Curzon there is no end.* Last week, however, the Dowager Countess of Minto, whose husband was Curzon's immediate successor as Viceroy of India, released memoirs in which she raked Curzon of Kedleston as only an outraged peeress can without breach of taste...
...Great Snob Curzon had no pity on poor horsy Minto. The Countess, again quoting her late husband's diary, records an inimitable Curzon snub to the new Viceroy as he reached India...
...excusing any able British snob, fawning friends always write that he was at heart sensitive and shy. To this, in Curzon's case, they add the "excruciating pain" he is supposed to have suffered from a weak back, laced always into a pinching brace or corset...
Smith. In Education last June Constance M. McCullough of University of Minnesota, having quizzed 100 private girls' schools and 100 public high schools, inferred that Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and their sisters are snob colleges. Her evidence: only 15% of Bryn Mawr's freshmen are admitted directly from public schools; only 20% of Vassar's, 25% of Smith...