In truth, he was a card cheat of remarkable dexterity who routinely cleaned out the sophisticates in games of three-card monte. |
That won him the derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds. |
They are the cosmopolitan sophisticates who recoil in horror from the beery racism of the ignorant underclass. |
But the illusion that British silky sophisticates can talk the new Romans out of doing something stupid, dies hard in British foreign policy. |
Today, the ten pound poms looking for a new life have been replaced by international sophisticates sipping martinis in this stunningly lit bar. |
When sophisticates lost interest, he-ever resourceful-traded his evening suit for a Western hat and chaps and took his Indians to Vaudeville. |