Paris Hilton would have bombed in Topeka.Since middle-class people like my mother and father tended to identify with that the folks back on the farm, that meant they didn't identify with and try to emulate em·u·late tr.v. em·u·lat·ed, em·u·lat·ing, em·u·lates 1. To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation: an older pupil whose accomplishments and style I emulated. 2. the rich nearly as much as today's middle class does. Social snobbery existed, but it was widely ridiculed. Think of the Marx Brothers Marx Brothers, team of American movie comedians. The members were Julius (1890?–1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1888?–1964), originally Adolph and known as Harpo; Leonard (1887?–1961), known as Chico; and two other brothers, Milton (Gummo) and and their favorite foil, the sanctimonious sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous adj. Feigning piety or righteousness: "a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity" Mark Twain. society lady played by Margaret Dumont. |
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