Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fierce rivalry existed between the ships. One installed a 34-whistle calliope, regaled the countryside with Swanee River. Price wars were frequent, and races common. Many races ended with bursting boilers...
...editors of Komsomolskaya Pravda were not amused. An investigation had been made of Miss Stepanchenko. Without doubt, she had been cultivating multiple boy friends in order to make a shrewd, calculated choice of a husband, just like any common bourgeoise...
Students without tickets can view the game from any of several sets around the Square. Winthrop House's set will be on, as well as the Union's, since the Union Dance Committee plans to delay decorating the small common room for the evening dance in order to allow Freshmen to crowd the room for the contest. Sets in the Varsity Club and in Cronin's restaurant beerhall will also be tuned...
While Superman represents the outer limits of fantasy in the current crop of radio thrillers for the kiddies, Captain Midnight's show contains features common to most of the quasi-credible serials. The hero is surrounded by at least two youthful subordinates, and usually has a humorous character whose harmless stupidity serves as a foil for the heavy witticisms of the others. Villains are either petty and dumb, or sinister and intelligent...
Guided by Author Fenwick's inflexible hand, the common man may well proceed to great rewards. The chief reward: being safe from snubs. Author Fenwick deplores "fake fireplaces filled with a fake coal fire, lighted by electricity," deprecates "a shawl on the piano" and " 'popup' cigarette boxes , . . decorated with a scotty or a nude." But she shows that her judgment has less to do with taste than with fashion when she advocates "tables made of old painted tin trays on a modern stretcher base" and "odd saucers of Lowestoft china ... as ashtrays...