upper-crust

Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand.

It was a travelling-show, you see, and some of the upper-crust people came out of the house I spoke of, and listened.

Place the bit of upper-crust carefully on the top of each, so as to cover the whole.

But why do you suffer yourselves to be crushed down by the upper-crust of senile nincompoops?