Catholicism became an upper-class religion, because they either had the influence to protect themselves or the money to pay".
Punch became an upper-class weekly and continued as such for three or four generations, reflecting the large knowledge of all classes it was possible for its staff to offer its readers, and the large delight of the upper class in seeing its own foibles and those of its servants, tradesmen, lame ducks, and "climbers" exposed.
Between 1880 and 1910, the area became an upper-class suburb, and was a popular choice for professionals in banking and insurance who worked in the city.
The Effra was covered over in the 1820s; and the area had become an upper-class suburb by the mid-19th century (a contemporary author referred to the hill as "the Elysium" for merchants).
Only after World War II did a college education become an upper-middle-class expectation.
Maybe the Baldwin Estate collection is merely for show, or maybe it's finally true that New York City has become an upper-middle-class suburb.
This is not quite the way I remembered junior high, but in recent decades a highly progressive species of education, with interdisciplinary units and history fairs and do-it-yourself science projects, has become an upper-middle-class suburban birthright.
Doctors became simply upper class plumbers with more Latin.
John in spirit had become a Sadducee, an upper-class conservative who accepted only the Written Law as divinely revealed and authoritative.
Why did God not choose to manifest divine power at the top levels of ancient empires like Egypt and Babylon, and why did God not become human in an upper-class Jewish or Roman family, especially since this would have had all sorts of advantages, "all other things being equal," as the economists say?
By the 1920s, the suburb had become relatively upper class, with large estates and mansions built throughout the suburb.
