leisured class
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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
"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus there would grow up a large body of men and women living segregated in institutions, and forming a leisured class able to superintend institutional charities.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
The number of the leisured class, enjoying large incomes without participating in any local industry, is relatively small, but is said to be on the increase.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Democracies must not be content to leave the ideals of health and beauty to artists and a leisured class; that is the way into a treeless, waterless desert.
From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy
