The visit was a triumph and the upper classes rushed to adopt the new fashion.
While money often works its way to the upper classes, it very rarely flows back the other way.
Asking politicians to enact changes that would reduce the wealth of the upper classes is a conflict of interests.
Does this mean marriage will soon be an institution of the upper classes?
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Cities were sharply divided between the upper classes on high and the transient population of boatmen and gamblers that made them rich.
Mr Prescott's working class image may even have helped broaden the appeal of the game, which is traditionally associated with the upper classes.
He also offers the theory that these days pronunciation tends to migrate from the lower to the upper classes, not the other way round.
It became an immediate hit with the upper classes in England, who came to like Dutch gin quite as much as they liked French brandy.
It became an immediate hit with the upper classes in England.
When it comes to cars for status in Brazil, the upper classes are serving up Pitu and 51 in their caipirinhas and thinking its top shelf liquor.
Trout and salmon may inhabit the dreams (and literature) of the upper classes, but the pugnacious, voracious bigmouth bass is everyman's fish, found in every state save Alaska.
After 1868, when Japan opened to Western influence, actors strove to heighten the reputation of Kabuki among the upper classes and to adapt the traditional styles to modern tastes.
The fervor of his followers, combined with the disdain of the upper classes, created a polarization in Venezuela that runs deeper than anything blue or red in the United States.
The main locales are the United Federation of Britain, where the upper classes live, and the dystopian precincts of the Colony, which could have passed in our time for Australia.
Strangely, though, they had nicknames that evoked either the Broadway characters of Damon Runyon or, more bizarrely, the upper classes of Wodehousian England: Bongbong, Teddyboy, Ting Ting and Ballsy, for example.
When disbelieving persons asked Psalmanazar why he was so fair and light-eyed and different-looking than they expected, he had a ready answer: the upper classes lived underground and were therefore pigmented like him.
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And even at Wentworth, there are rules: no singlet or vest tops, shirts must have a collar (a throwback to the elitist collar-and-tie days, when golf was only played by the upper classes) and strictly no denim.
This is essentially the upper middle classes stating that the billionaires should be paying more tax.
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This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.
Though the sometimes indolent ways of the British upper classes served as his muse, his writing gave the impression that he embraced the immense, and in a very real sense, the anti-conservative changes wrought by Thatcherism.
It benefits the upper and upper-middle classes, the argument goes, by the strict standards it imposes to protect the land: growth control, open space, maintained eco-systems and the preservation of town or village character.
This price barrier makes the coffee shop culture mainly a preserve of the upper middle classes in India.
Note that word "braying" - a deliberate allusion to the Woosterish upper classes.
The reform process is already under way among the urbanized upper classes.
Another reason is that the upper middle classes have held their own.
Homeownership remained confined largely to small-town denizens and the urban upper classes.
Simply put, the values that lead to failure are in no way the sole preserve of the upper middle classes, let alone white people.
This is somewhat true, particularly for parts of London and New York, which can survive high ratios because their markets are less national and middle-income and more tied to the global upper classes.
At the same time, the royal family does touch the real world, albeit the part of it inhabited by what remains of the landed upper classes: a life of moors and deer-stalking, of summers under Scottish rain, dogs and horses, the church, the armed forces, the same few boarding schools and the right sort of nightclubs.
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