leisured class
Example Sentences
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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
They are indeed the only leisured class in the country, the only large body of persons who are not called upon to win their daily bread in direct, wage-earning ways.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
All the walks of life wherein men proceed as though they belonged to the leisured class are becoming no fit places for self-respecting people.
From Side Lights by Allen, Grant
The cane seems to be a distinguishing mark of the leisured class.
From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward
