leisured class
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"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The leisured class of England consists of both sexes, that of America practically of one only.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
Mr. Price Collier's England and the English is the Toryism of an American who has enjoyed the hospitality of the leisured class, and has read the Times with some diligence.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
In Europe we have now no leisured class; we have only a number of rich men, mere wealth-producers, who perform for high wages the useful functions that miners and milkmaids perform for low ones.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
