Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at every turnstile...
Railroadmen knew that this was true. The net income of Class I railroads had dropped from $262 million in 1948's first half to $173 million in the first six months this year. Much of the diverted freight was picked up by truckers. They netted $40.5 million in 1947, nearly doubled that last year with $73.4 million, and their traffic was still rising...
Snub-nosed, ruddy-cheeked Bill Keady had been practically raised by Avery. He joined U.S. Gypsum's marine department in 1924 after quitting the Navy (Annapolis, class of 1916). A vice president in charge of operations when he was 38, he was Avery's choice for president ten years later in 1942. As Keady took over more & more of the company's operations, Chicagoans almost forgot that Avery had anything to do with Gypsum...
...story of Tennyson's vast Victorian lifetime is like the story of a civilization in Toynbee: the whole age is embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...
Fumes of Tobacco. Industry dismayed him, and so did London with its "leagues of lights"; he roamed the streets in horror that the seething crowds he found there would soon be lying horizontal underground. Like the middle class whose poet he became, Tennyson spent most of his life in a vague struggle to soften, to disavow the harsh materialism of mines and factories that made the wealth of England and killed her poor in slums; to cling to the beauty of the spirit and to belief...