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
As the discovery was not made till the train reached Orange, it is, of course, impossible to know where the unfortunate woman, who, by her dress, belonged to the leisured class, entered the train.
From The Uttermost Farthing by Marie Belloc Lowndes
A national debt, he maintains, enriches the capital at the expense of the provinces; further, it creates a leisured class of stockholders, and possesses all the disadvantages of paper credit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
For the first time in his life Tony Luton discovered that agents and managers were a leisured class, and that office boys had manners.
From When William Came by Saki
