Word: bourgeoises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A sudden landslide from the rain-soaked, earthen cliffs that tower above the Rhone had sent a heaving mass of mud hurtling down Caliure Hill where it burst like a tidal wave upon two apartment houses, shattering and engulfing them, ripping open water mains which spouted and gas mains which...
"Municipal political 'machines' now serve as mediators between the bourgeois and proletariat classes, and are in effect, paid commissions by the business men for so doing. If public utilities were taken from the control of the state, all necessity for such 'machines' would be obviated, and their accompanying corruption would...
In other parts of town, other galleries honored two of the U. S. drama's ablest decorators: tousle-haired Robert Edmond Jones at the Bourgeois Galleries, swart Jo Mielziner at Marie Sterner's.
Today Thuringia is one of the federated German republics. Nonetheless, Her Royal Highness the widowed Grand Duchess Feodora of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is still very much alive. Last week the Premier of Thuringia yielded gallantly to the regal Duchess who is 41. She sailed sedately into the Grand Ducal Mausoleum...
It might be supposed that such antics would only be accomplished, without loss of face, by a low grade buffoon with small respect for his calling. Such is not the case. They are performed here by Will Rogers and become a typical Rogers product, amiable, offhand, bourgeois, amusing.