too-well-fed

Updated: June 15, 2025

They were a noisy, a spending, a cosmopolitan crowd of too-well-fed men and too-well-groomed women, ignored by the veranda groups of wives and mothers, openly dazzling and arousing a tremendous curiosity in the younger set, and quite obviously sought after by their own kind. But Hester's world, too, is all run through with sharply defined social schisms.

Fannie Hurst - The Vertical City