Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Explaining What a Snob Really Is. [ARTICLE]

Explaining What a Snob Really Is.

“Uncle Roy, what is a snob?”' “A snob, Eddie, is a person who inherits a great deal of money, -goes abroad and buys himself a veneer of culture, returns home and poses as a connoisseur of something, and goes around calling his poor relations ‘parvennes.’ Why do you ask such a question, Eddie?” “Because I heard Donald’s big brother talking about you this afternoon and he said you were a snob.”