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...length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people scrabbling for old lamps, jewelry, and clothes hangers. In swank Lake Forest, upper-crust ladies clamor for silk evening gowns that can be converted to nightgowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Era | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Having asked the Congress for a loaf of bread to take care of this war," he went on, he might have been content with "this small piece of crust" if it had not contained "so many extraneous and inedible materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barkley Incident | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Malvern College, Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told an audience of upper-crust British boys that more socialism has been accomplished in Britain by the Conservative Party, which opposes socialism, than by the Labor Party, which espouses it. Added Mr. Morrison: "This is the funny thing about British politics, which only an Englishman understands, and not many of them understand it, but this is how we get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Funny Thing | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...King of Crust. In Houston, the day after Mrs. John Clash's car was stolen, she got a wire from the thief, now 150 miles away, who asked for $25 to pay for repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...while praising the training center, now that is something. And so the beginning of the V-12 program saw the Herald cut loose with a three column gem about how war has revolutionized the University and how students here are not all "wealthy off-shoots of society's upper crust...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

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