Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialism, Radicalism, Communism. In Washington he stood up before the du Fonts and the Raskobs not to speak to them but to his party. He spoke not as the statesman of eight years ago but as the New Yorker of 30 years ago in the solecisms of the Lower East Side. Not once did he mention the name of Franklin Roosevelt, but every long word that he twisted his raucous tongue around, every point that he drove home with platitudinous common sense, every uproarious poke at the New Deal invited comparison with the polished plausibility of the Squire of Hyde...
...medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during the procession and disappeared. It had been picked up and quietly pocketed by an officer who as quietly produced it to his bug-eyed superiors. Normally the Crown reposes with the Sceptre and other Crown Jewels at the lower of London inside a large, round age with heavy iron bars through which peer visitors watched by "Beefeaters...
...remained for five years, became Volunteer ''majors," broadcasting occasionally from the Louisville County Jail. Lately a small Manhattan radio station (WLTH) has been sending out their Bowery mission programs. Result was that an advertising scout heard Mrs. Ulrey sing The Penitent's Plea and Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, was vastly impressed with the quality of her voice. He saw to it that she was offered a steady radio contract at $500 per week, a chance to sing with Rudy Vallee in behalf of Fleischmann's Yeast. Volunteer Ulrey came near yielding to temptation. Last...
...Lorenzo bunch took their name from the fact that most of them lived in an apartment house called by that magnificent name. A young married set in the lower brackets of the middle class, whose husbands worked hard at minor jobs that kept their wives supplied with candy, cinemas and cheap cars, they lived in loud but comparatively harmless amity. The more frolicsome hailed each other, farewelled and responded with such remarks as "Bum joor, sports!", "Olive oil!", "Yeppy...
...wife, who had personality and an itch for Art. When the showdown came, with a double divorce and remarriage, Ernie and Irene found the new deal was not all they had hoped. The Lorenzo bunch, awed by the spectacle of so much high villainy, relapsed contentedly into their lower brackets...