Word: bourgeoises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe...
Before the game, at luncheon and afterward at dinner Ambassador Bullitt played host to the two potent Red Commissars and three high-ranking Red Army officers, on a footing of hearty intimacy such as no bourgeois Ambassador has ever achieved in Moscow.
For serious operagoers the treat next winter will be the revival of Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, probably the season's curtain-raiser. Seekers after the new and curious will have to travel to Cleveland or Philadelphia. In both cities Artur Rodzinski has contracted to conduct Lady Macbeth from...
Here are our last two stories of the year about this naive class of 1937. Taken from intellectual and social sources, they reveal an unhappy state of affairs for the thousand Freshmen who have just completed nine months at Harvard. It seems that one of them took the tutoring school...
". . . The middle-class attitude, represented by such good bourgeois figures as Aristotle, Socrates, and A. N. Holcombe, is a pious wish that all conflicting interests in a state be so reconciled as to provide for the welfare of all. . ."