booboisie

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Its gushers of wealth were said to be strangling intellectual life in an America as the booboisie, in their catch-penny wisdom, had chosen men like Harding and Coolidge to be president.

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  • Its gushers of wealth were said to be strangling intellectual life in an America as the booboisie, in their catch-penny wisdom, had chosen men like Harding and Coolidge to be president. —  TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
  • Surveying the teeming hordes of American citizens, Mencken called them the "booboisie." —  3quarksdaily
  • Put It to a Vote Just in time for the booboisie's vote, a reconsideration of Mencken's —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
 

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