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
Our leisured class, moribund before the war, died peacefully in its sleep the year before last.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
In one of his early essays Renan points out that the proper apology for the old French aristocracy is that it performed the proper function of a leisured class.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
They too were men working for their living—we have no leisured class here—and few of them but had suffered from droughts and bad times, and depended on their clip to ease financial embarrassments.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada
