Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Continentals call this tendency "dirigisme" it is increasingly unpopular on the Continent. The French, Italians and even the sober Belgians consider the British taste for controlled austerity to be somewhat perverted-what might be called economic masochism, or love of suffering. The British look down their noses and reply that their controls are merely good housekeeping...
...Love & the Coal Trust. The Dollar Princess was Miss Alice Cowder, dashing daughter of John W. Cowder, president of the Coal Trust. Alice was a strong-minded girl, always abreast of stockmarket quotations. Of her it was said that "in any sort of weather, she works on all the while, until she's raked together, a tidy little pile."*Because her father liked to employ titled Europeans as footmen and office boys, Alice had acquired a rather low opinion of continental coronets ("You bid the right amount-you own a duke or count...
...Cowder had ignored business for the sake of a Polish countess (in reality no countess at all, but a lion tamer). Smokeless Coal, on the other hand, was flourishing, which evened things up-at least by the peculiar laws of Viennese musicals. Alice says: "Oh take me, love, take me away," and Viennese audiences (in 1907) went home, humming happily and concluding that Americans, while somewhat uncouth and acquisitive, probably had hearts of gold or, at least, coal...
...Love & the Main Force. In Moscow, Freddie Smythe becomes Kazimir, a fine, upstanding Polish proletarian; the lady lion tamer is transformed into a lovely Polish girl who sings of love, faithfulness and sunshine over Warsaw. Kazimir and Ludviga got a job with Cowder (now spelled Kuder, rhymes with cruder) so that they could save money and get married. However, they are advised to conceal their romance, since "nobody in America will hire fianceés-their minds are too much on love and not sufficiently on work...
...goddess, I am a millionaire, so we are equals. I wish I were younger but immortality is one thing you can't buy even in America." Meanwhile, Dollar Princess Jenny plots to throw her father out of his business and get all the money for herself. She sings: "Love is no good at the bank. Dollars, that's realistic. Money, that is power. I'll buy myself the man I love...