A trained engineer, he was the cousin-brother of steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , and a partner in the Carnegie Steel Corporation , a forerunner of U.S. Steel . Early years George Lauder was the son of George Lauder, Sr . and Seaton Morrison.
pretentious. adjective. 1  Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case: a pretentious socialite. 2  Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority: made pretentious remarks about his education.
By 1870 the term is reported as being used with a hyphenated adjective, that is, effectively as a single word, with our current 'pretentious; swanky' meaning of the term. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the Pennsylvania newspaper The Titusville Morning Herald used it that way in an advert in October 1870: