Tea Hounds and Cookie Pushers

After the Rogers Act of 1924, there was a general hope that the Foreign Service would become more professional and not serve simply as a sinecure for rich boys from Yale:

Hugh Gibson, our minister [ambassador] to Finland, advocates chasing the tea hounds and cookie pushers out of the diplomatic service, but who, then would compete in the matrimonial market with foreign noblemen for our heiresses? - The Washington Post, 18 January 1924

 As a tea-hound, cookie-pusher, and heiress-seeker, I resemble that remark...