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Torie
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« on: August 28, 2013, 09:36:21 AM »
Yes, Wall Street has money again, and with money, comes conspicuous consumption for these nouveaux riches. It's all very infra dig to me. Whatever ever happened to that Yankee virtue of understatement?
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Torie
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2013, 11:25:29 AM »
Yes, the NYC orbit is not New England, and not Yankee, and Fitzgerald told us about that lifestyle long ago. It was just a turn of phrase Memphis. The Yankee virtue of understatement never took hold in the NYC orbit.
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