Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decadent old capitalist custom of tipping is on the rise in the increasingly class-conscious Communist society that Nikita Khrushchev is building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income...
...little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week: the $3,000-a-year schoolteacher drives an ice-cream truck to send his son to college. But the biggest moonlighter of them all is the airline pilot, that rugged capitalist of the sky, who makes as much as $30,000 a year (as a jet captain) and spends his off-duty hours piling up even more of the long green...
...course, an irrepressible capitalist ("The Rolls is the only sports car I will drive in a Russian blizzard"), shows dangerous bourgeois-individualistic tendencies by riding her tricycle on the frozen Baltic, and utters subversive observations ("Everybody watches everybody in Moscow"). But she makes up for it by getting right into the thick of cultural exchange, playing chopsticks in F at Tchaikovsky Hall, and doing a "rawther unusual" ballet with three elderly snow sweepers, which cries out for Choreographer Jerome Robbins. The book's most remarkable character is Eloise's guide, Zhenka, who has a magnificently declarative style...
Undershaft: To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and Tsar, to Capitalist and Socialist . . . all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes.-Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara...
...witnesses" were described as Reuther's shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile plant in 1934; the fourth was a mysterious "N" who claimed to be his long-lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America.' He promised to write me but I knew it was a lie. He was a scoundrel." Without a smile, Reuther denied the whole thing...