Word: plebeian
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Whatever his place, he is such a man as some of the commanders Napoleon assembled around him in his youth: tough, untutored, plebeian, successful. The German radio recently quoted him as saying...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...
...streets shot first and challenged afterwards. Kamaainas (long-settled whites) had to entertain themselves with card games and gossip at home in dim-lit, tightly-sealed rooms. No liquor was to be had, and candy sales went up with a rush. The hotspots-from the Royal Hawaiian to the plebeian Venice Cafe were shut tight. Overhead the air patrols constantly thundered...
...first primary campaign, which ended three weeks ago, all three candidates were Roosevelt men. Maybank's opponents were both natives of the plebeian "upcountry" which had ruled South Carolina since 1890. Former Governor Johnston, born in a sharecropper's cabin, once worked as a lint-head in the textile mills. Representative Joseph R. Bryson was once a millhand too. Burnet Maybank called at the White House. When he left, he was authorized to announce that South Carolina would get two more fat power developments: a $28,000,000 project on the Savannah River, southwest of Charleston, another...
...head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian music lovers roosting in the precipitous galleries who had stood in line, some of them for 15 hours, for their $2 standing room. Thus the Metropolitan Opera once again opened its season...