Word: burgher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bawling Burgher. This month, hometown boosters followed the team to West Germany at their own expense to watch them fight to get the championship back. Wherever the Vs tuned up in practice games, Penticton rooters made a loud and loyal crew. To their surprise, they got a lot of outside support. While the Vs were trouncing a pickup team of Berliners, German spectators screamed: "Beat the Russians! Beat the Russians...
...Bohemia Club, dedicated to the age of chivalry, boasts more than 40 members, all of whom go through an elaborate system of probation, starting as pilgrims and gradually working up to burgher, squire and knight. They bear special names: e.g., a Hollywood physician is known as Knight Hypocrates or the Pill Peddler. Members carry swords and wear helmets, use what they consider to be antique language ("gnaw" for eat, "torch" for cigar), and engage in musical and beer-drinking contests. In the works: a club house with moat and drawbridge...
...emotion; says Critic Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder; and in Channel Firing, the dead, stirred by great noises, rise from...
...world of storm troopers and commissars, George Babbittand Red Lewisdid not look like such bad fellows after all. In The Prodigal Parents, Babbitt (this time called Fred Cornplow) was finally canonized by his creator. Wrote Lewis: "He is the eternal bourgeois, the bourjoyce, the burgher . . . and when he changes his mind, that crisis is weightier than Waterloo or Thermopylae." Sinclair Lewis, Knocker, had turned into Sinclair Lewis, Booster...