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And Cooper's social circle now included some very upper class people indeed.

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A quick peek into butter’s rich history reveals that the humble dairy product was once a luxury reserved for the upper class.

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They were pushed by political leaders in South Korea as a high-tech modernist paradise, soon making them the most desirable form of housing for the middle and upper classes.

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The Reichstag, or national parliament, was grossly gerrymandered in favor of the upper classes, and the government was not responsible to its lawmakers, but rather to a capricious monarch.

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It is, as she says, both appropriation of the trappings of the upper class and a challenge to the order they’ve subjected the world to.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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