silk-stocking
Example Sentences
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One of the Assistant Attorneys in the office cautioned Yates against taking the job, telling her that, coming from a silk-stocking firm, she might not be ready to deal with criminals.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017
His district — long a bastion of silk-stocking Republicanism — was also changing, becoming more Democratic.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2014
The gravitas she commands as a boldface name, even among this silk-stocking crowd, meant that people wanted her attention as she made her rounds at the conference.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2014
Turning his phrasemaking talents to politics, Barton won election to an unexpired term in the House of Representatives in 1937 from Manhattan's "silk-stocking district," was easily re-elected the following year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fussy old gentlemen with white side whiskers and silk-stocking reformers and the other well meaning amateurs, who are engaged in "stamping out" the evil, deserve to be set aside.
From What eight million women want by Dorr, Rheta Childe
