Word: plebian
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...violinists, are the equal of others playing their instruments in other quartets, while Kroyt, on the viola, is not a Sander Roth. Through Schneider's excellence and intelligent rehearsal however, they achieve by far the best all over performances you are likely to hear. At Pierian's plebian prices, it is distinctly worth your while...
...gorgeous day ... sun shining. clouds scudding, girls in sweaters strolling invitingly by. But the two heroes of this late of devotion to duty gave not a thought to such plebian harbingers of Spring, for they were enterug the gates of the Navy Yard, intent on adding to their growing warehouse of knowledge...
...belief that the rule of the people, fumbling though it often is will ultimately result in fewer mistakes than any dictatorship of a self-appointed clite. Faced by a new aristocracy of the "expert," Professor Friedrich, himself a high ranking member of that aristocracy, is still sufficiently plebian to assert his faith in the common man's capacity for self-government. This faith is "an extraordinary one." Historically considered, it has often remained inarticulate, since by nature "the intellectual is predisposed toward the uncommon man: he strives to be uncommon." But let the uncommon man, the trained expert, be faced...
Full dress was in order as the customary dinner jackets were ruled inadequate to the occasion, while the plebian English was abandoned in favor of more cultured French. Messrs. Coolidge, Perkins, and Hammond, however, quickly admitted the errors of their ways, and made amends in a Latin correspondence that would have been voluble if it had not been one sided. Unfortunately, when in Lowell House, the French do not do as the Romans...
Crosby happens to neglect the proper aristocratic spirit as he sings his way into the heart of a Russian Princess at Monte Carlo. Happily, the Princess finds it possible to descend to plebian emotions with comfortable restraint and grace. Possibly this is because she is Kitty Carlisle...