Word: plebeian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general feeling was: Here he comes! Now, at last, the campaign will really...
...York City's Hunter College is the world's biggest college for women. Seldom mentioned in the same breath with Wellesley, Smith and Vassar, although it is older (70 years) than Wellesley or Smith, free, plebeian Hunter College boasts no distinguished line of presidents, no dormitories, no daisy chain. Its main "campus" has long been a group of ugly old buildings on Manhattan's East 68th Street. Its 10,000 students commute to classes by subway...
...strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt's hurried clasp. Their real acquaintance began...
They settled at St. Petersburg (up 15% over 1938-39); at snooty Palm Beach and plebeian West Palm Beach (up 20%); at Fort Lauderdale, "fastest growing city in the fastest growing county in Florida," (up 20%); at Daytona Beach, Key West, St. Augustine, Tampa (up 20%). And by uncounted thousands they were diffused in trailer camps, autocamps, hamlets, roadside inns. By April 1, when the winter season wanes and the smaller summer crop begins to bud. the calculators figure that upwards of 3,000,000 will have come and departed, left $365,000,000 in Florida pockets...