Sir: While visiting in a New England family I accused them of being
"highbrows," and they gave me these modern synonyms for highbrow and
lowbrow, taken from a Boston paper:
Highbrow: Browning, anthropology, economics, Bacon, the string
quartette, the uplift, inherent sin, Gibbon, fourth dimension,
Euripides, "eyether," pate de fois gras, lemon phosphate, Henry Cabot
Lodge, Woodrow Wilson.
Low-highbrow: Municipal government, Kipling, socialism, Shakespeare,
politics, Thackeray, taxation, golf, grand opera, bridge, chicken a la
Maryland, "eether," stocks and bonds, gin rickey, Theodore Roosevelt,
chewing gum in private.
High-lowbrow: Musical comedy, euchre, baseball, moving pictures, small
steak medium, whisky, Robert W. Chambers, purple socks, chewing gum with
friends.
Lowbrow: Laura Jean Libbey, ham sandwich, haven't came, pitch, I and
her, melodrama, hair oil, the Duchess, beer, George M. Cohan, red
flannels, toothpicks, Bathhouse John, chewing gum in public.