Word: nouveaux
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Policy, or NEP, as it is hastily called, permitted the reopening of private trade and speculation in marketing. Small cliques of vigorous and illiterate men have rapidly risen in each city through trade in potatoes and wheat. The cabarets and hotels are again flourishing under the patronage of these nouveaux riches. As yet manufacture has remained in government hands partly because of legal and political impediments and partly because of lack of sufficiently large accumulations of private capital. As a reservoir of capital is formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized by the government...
...Only the Jews have money, and only a few of them. Anti-Semitism runs high. The old wealthy and middle-class people are practically wiped out. A few low-grade nouveaux riches take their place...
...grade nouveaux riches...
...with many of the "Nobility and Gentry." These latter may quite conceivably learn with pain some of the things that go on behind the traditionally imperturbable butlerian countenance. No Admirable Crichton this, however, to transform them. Rather, he gazes upon them and philosophizes, mildly-but inwardly. Thus, of the nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same...