Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of Ned's drinking Evalyn tried to be a good mother to the four children she somehow had. When she gave her first little boy a children's party she never spent less than $15,000 on it. And to keep him from becoming a snob she bought him a little colored playmate, had him washed, perfumed, dressed in Paris clothes. That experiment, however, was not a success. When the McLeans became great friends with President Harding and the Ohio Gang, Evalyn had high hopes of Ned's ultimate reformation, but he was inevitably headed...
...Tree (RKO) is the one about Pat and Mike. Pat (James Barton) is Patrick Murphy, an aging Dublin saloonkeeper who, arriving in the U. S. to discover what has become of his son Charles, finds him running for Mayor of Central City, Iowa, and married to a social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally, conducts...
With $5 in his pocket, bulky, vigorous Author Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) arrived in Manhattan after four months abroad. Said he to newshawks: "There's one swell thing about Americans?as a race we are not snobs. . . . For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys...
...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...
...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...