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- adjective Of or pertaining to Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist and designer.
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As a group, I believe that teenage girls put the most hardened McKinsey Whartonian to shame.
Fortune 's Stanley Bing: Is Facebook Creating the Next Generation of Buttheads? 2010
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As a group, I believe that teenage girls put the most hardened McKinsey Whartonian to shame.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Is Facebook Creating the Next Generation of Buttheads? 's Stanley Bing 2010
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Another person who has seen the letter is the 90-year-old novelist Louis Auchincloss, who may have more Whartonian connections than anyone still alive.
November 22nd, 2007 2007
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I arrived in Venice in what I fancied was rather a Whartonian style, though perhaps a little less grand, with a half-finished new novel to work on, and the Library of America loose-leaf page proofs fluttering around me like sibylline leaves.
Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001
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I arrived in Venice in what I fancied was rather a Whartonian style, though perhaps a little less grand, with a half-finished new novel to work on, and the Library of America loose-leaf page proofs fluttering around me like sibylline leaves.
Wharton's Sharp Eye 2001
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In a sister manse, Ann and Gordon Getty have assembled one of the world's most bewitching treasure houses, and the Trainas 'elegant nonagenarian friends Adolphus and Emmy Andrews live nearby in a style that is frankly Whartonian.
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