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
The cane seems to be a distinguishing mark of the leisured class.
From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward
I think I shall become one of the intelligent leisured class.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
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
