"but, No! " Says Sir Robert Greig, " You Are
taking the romantic point of view. Titles do a great amount of harm. They perpetuate class differences, and they expose us to contempt and ridicule abroad." I do not believe......
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N ICOLSON By HAROLD ()last week's Spectator Sir Robert Greig contributed a letter in which he advocated the abolition of all titles. He contended titles of nobility and chivalry......
E Origins Of The Word " Snob " Are Obscure.
The O.E.D. sug- that it was first used as a slang name for cobblers, and that ter it was employed by the undergraduates of Cambridge to ate that class of their fellow citizens......
R Ace Saw, In A Graveyard At Erfurt, A Tomb-stone To
the memory Frau Witwe Lokomotivefiihrer Binder." This title struck me time as over-precise, but is it so far removed from the tal, and American, habit of conferring functional,......
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