Newly married, he pushed himself into the city's upper social strata and found customers with money to spend.
Before World War I, both Austria and Prussia had three classes of weighted votes that effectively kept electoral power in the hands of the upper social strata.
Invoking history, law and the upper social strata of Washington, Justice Antonin Scalia said on Thursday that he would not remove himself from a case before the Supreme Court involving his good friend, Vice President Dick Cheney.
In the upper social strata, many marriages still result from private matchmaking; in a broader example of this, professional matchmakers scour the graduation albums of top women's colleges and call alumnae at home to introduce them to bachelors.
But once tiny, pointed feet became a difficult-to-attain ideal of feminine beauty, an obstacle to infidelity and a mark of elevated social status, there was no way for parents in the upper social strata to abandon the practice without losing honor — and reducing their daughters' marriage prospects.
The club was founded by students and its membership later drew from the upper social strata.
Women and individuals from upper social strata tend to participate more actively in postal health surveys.
1 2 Previous studies have suggested that women, older persons and persons from upper social strata tend to participate more actively in health surveys compared with the rest.
Edward St. Aubyn's subject is the British upper class, a social stratum known to most of us only through celebrity gossip or "Masterpiece Theater," and the techniques with which he guides us through the arcane hierarchy of competing snobberies seem, at first, old-fashioned -- a style of social comedy more reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell or Nancy Mitford than of anyone writing today.
