cream of society
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“If you are the cream of society, why would you work against a system that brings you opportunity?”
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2017
The cream of society had crowded the princess' salon to hear famed Franz Liszt outthunder another darling of the day, suave Sigismond Thalberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
To it are invited topflight critics, big-shot editors, notables in the arts, gossip columnists, diplomats, politicians, the cream of society.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, mamma, you must confess that the association of such a name as Sterzl with the cream of society is irresistibly funny," cried Polyxena.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Schubin, Ossip
In the first place, the assemblage, in a space forty metres long by thirty wide, of a hundred condemned or suspected criminals, does not constitute the cream of society.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
