There never was, I suppose, in the history of the world a time when the sheer vulgar fatness of wealth, without any kind of aristo...cratic elegance to redeem it, was so obtrusive as in those years before 1914 ... . from the whole decade ... there seems to breathe forth a smell of the more vulgar, un-grown-up kinds of luxury, a smell of brilliantine and creme de menthe and soft- centered chocolates--an atmosphere, as it were of eating everlasting strawberry ices on green lawns to the tune of the Eton Boating Song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all th...e papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »