Some Gilded-Age Jewish elite members openly bullied ordinary citizens

Evidence

Grannie Cohen’s definition of underlings, moreover, apparently included the general public. When buying tickets for a railroad trip or a play, her practice was to eye the queue of ticket buyers disdainfully and then stride up to the first man on it and simply elbow him out of the way. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 118

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A matriarch who elbows strangers out of ticket queues is a vivid originating character beat for a satirical or historical novel about gilded-age entitlement.