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
But the real link was that they both instinctively threw overboard all but the essential; they cared comparatively little for most of the preoccupations and smaller solicitudes of the women in their own leisured class.
From Bird of Paradise by Leverson, Ada
I think I shall become one of the intelligent leisured class.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
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)
