Word: castee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Katherine Mayo, 73, crusading authoress whose best-selling Mother India in 1927 caused an international stir; after long sickness; in Bedford Hills, N. Y. Said Mahatma Gandhi as Miss Mayo's indictment of Hindu caste and culture was being burned throughout India: "A book. . . every Indian can read...
National Contesters includes housewives, doctors, lawyers, merchants and a great many printers. Printers have to watch their spelling, often consult dictionaries, which eventually leads them to try their hand at slogans. Peculiar is the caste system of the contest business. A crossword puzzler looks down on jinglers, but slogan-makers...
They have, too, not been loath to consider tinkering with the industrial structure facing them so coldly and discouragingly. This receptivity to change has characterized not only trade-union youth but college youths as well. Again unlike Germany--where university attendance was largely restricted to an upper caste, and students...
Growl and Grumbles. Churchill's growl still set the keynote of his people's temper. He still rode high in their affections as war leader, but there was also a grumble, which CBS Broadcaster Edward (christened Egbert) Murrow defined as coming from caste-conscious Britons who were beginning...
Authors Dollard & Davis' conclusion: Negroes are doubly bedeviled by class and caste anxieties; one way to alleviate Negro problems is for society to visit less punishment on Negro children, more sympathetic understanding.