well-born

• “Since the 1960s, well-educated and often well-born men and women have followed Murdoch and made money in newspapers, the arts and television by debasing popular taste.”

  The Guardian: A chance to drag ourselves out of the gutter | Nick Cohen

• “The daughters of the well-born still made their debuts at court.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Portraying an Enigma

• “He looked and had the feel of a well-born Eastern moderate Republican.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Someone Had a Good Week

• “I secretly watch the well-born ladies of the court: how they sit and speak and move and eat.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “Visual references are stitched through the language - old women were called 'gauna,' literally 'hot milk-skin'; you spoke not of being good but of appearing good; the most precious possession in the city were the well-born, pulchritudinous young men, the kalos k'athagos - the 'noble in mind and appearance.”

  The Washington Post: "The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates

• “The zeal for communism among well-born British intellectuals, from the Cambridge spies in the 1930s to young Trotskyites such as Christopher Hitchens in the 1960s, was driven in no small part by a wish to thwart America's sway over the Britons' own land as well as the globe.”

  The Wall Street Journal: They Never Got Over Yorktown

• “Rather than continue on to England with Lord Francis and, in the manner of the well-born Englishwoman of the day, keep Captain Strong as a lover, May deserted her husband for her darling Bradlee (American women were much too sentimental and conventional to English eyes).”

  Cocotte of the Week: May Yohé | Edwardian Promenade

• “Did the well-born and even-tempered painter have a rugged nautical side, or nurture fantasies of roiled, Turneresque waters?”

  Edwardiana in the News | Edwardian Promenade

• “It is not a recent phenomenon that the cleverest Ivy Leaguers have headed off to Wall Street; simply, in recent years the process has gotten more meritocratic and stopped being just slots for the well-born and well-connected.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers and Inequality

• “After the wealthy, elegant, and extremely able Pauline Morton Sabin (54) became the public face of Repeal, well-born American women (and those who aspired to the same social status) flocked to her cause.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

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