Word: snobbishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quite frankly." O'Malley began, "the reason professional people have not been organized is a very snobbish one... Part of your pay check has been the fact that you work for Harvard. That's fine...
...without a token show of concern for the plight of Sullivan and his football club. They had to. They were among the people who had disapproved of Harvard's refusal to loan its Stadium to the Patriots until a stadium could be built. Harvard was called arrogant, snobbish, and lacking in community interest. The councillors, at least for the record, had to prove that they weren't quite as harsh...
Like most black college students of his day, Miller's background was solidly middle class. His father was a supervisor in the Post Office. his mother had been born into Boston's small black middle class. Though financially belonging to that class. the Miller family scorned its snobbish social practices: the Miller children-Mel has two sisters and three brothers, one of whom. Jack. is vice-president and business manager of the paper-grew up with a wide variety of friends in a Roxbury that was predominantly white. Still young, Mel Miller seemed to be following a path that...
...have talked with other alumni and friends of Harvard, some of whom (particularly the lawyers), suggest, but do not describe, all kinds of obscure and "dangerous" entanglements. There is a chauvinistic and frankly-snobbish reaction to the notion of any part of Harvard being contaminated by "Professional Sports," with the heavy suggestion that, once this ogre gets his foot in the door. Las Vegas-in-Cambridge is only a step away...