Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
...ignoring style changes, says the magazine in summation, the Russian "has made a defiant gesture at class consciousness that fails absolutely. Actually he would be a great deal wiser to follow modern fashion in its entirety or invent a completely different form of dress. His humdrum neatness, coupled with naive mistakes, merely gives him a bourgeois look...
Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second...
Weeding out applicants by a homemade aptitude test, Miss Efron started with a class of 20, including six practicing newsmen. At first, teacher and class fought in French on philosophical terrain: What is truth? What is objectivity? When Miss Efron tried to explain the difference between opinion and fact, gossip and news, her students replied that she was "stifling the Haitian soul." Later, "Editor" Efron sent her reporters scurrying out on assignments. Says she proudly:"They got kicked out of the best places in town...
...Authentic? They also brought back to class more news than was being printed in the daily papers. Before long, the six professionals were unashamedly cribbing from their classmates' homework. After six months, Editor Efron decided that her newshawks were ready to put out their own model newspaper. Printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies and distributed to government offices, labor unions, political parties and cafés, Vol. 1, No. 1 of Journal caused a national uproar...