Word: middleclass
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...family that gradually emerged from Author Scott's scrutiny of these nameless photographs, none at first sight was either attractive or unusual. The father, upper middleclass, Boer War vintage, was spoiled, conservative, selfish, in trade (kippers) but with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with...
...Many a woman, taught to drink by Prohibition, last week hooked a French heel over a brass rail. Tower Magazines, Inc. distributors of mass periodicals through Woolworth Stores, asked its middleclass, female readership if they would serve beer at home. "Yes" answered 76%. * States which Drys believe will fail to ratify the 21st Amendment: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah...
...about gaunt young men with a ten-word vocabularly who spend their lives sweating and hauling wood. Haven't you got any subject between the two?" The Gods Arrive, like all Wharton novels, is a pat answer to this petulant query: its people and problems are U. S. middleclass...
...Author. Though born of farmer stock (Kewaskum, Wis., 1901) Author Wescott's family "has aristocratic rather than middleclass prejudices; it does not hoard up its sons for the sake of the family fortune, but regards it as a duty to make gifts of them to 'the State.' "... Intended by them to be an ecclesiastical offering, though his own ambition was to be a musician, Glenway has turned out to be a Literary Gift. His books, The Apple of the Eye, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, picture his native Middle West of which...
...replacing "Mr. & Mrs." the Herald Tribune has continued it, drawn by a "ghost" (Cartoonist Arthur Folwell). But also the Herald Tribune engaged Rea Irvin. His title is "The Smythes;" his characters, the conventional father, mother, small son & daughter, Pekinese pup; his theme, the conventional burlesque of U. S. middleclass home life. Sample episode: Mrs. Smythe insists upon buying Pekinese, to utter disgust of Mr. Smythe who snorts, "I don't know what you can see in that mutt." Mrs. Smythe, in desperation, goes to bed. Later, Tootums (the Pekinese) awakes and sneezes. Unable to arouse his wife, Smythe arises...