Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their places are being taken by a new generation of flibbertigibbets whose minds are apt to be more on men than helping the "mem." Mostly Malayan or Indian girls, with a sprinkling of untrained Chinese, they are prettier and more sophisticated than their forebears -and, say their mems, often downright insolent. For their part, the maids complain bitterly that the rapidly expanding Malayan middle class is even more tyrannical than the bossiest Britons...
...have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand, the straightaway path to a graduate or professional degree is the only thing that interests you, then know this: some detours have prettier scenery...
Kennedy for President in '64. Of course I mean Teddy. With more youth and looks than Jack-and a prettier wife than Jackie-and just as much money-what more could you want...
...earnings of the roads last year totaled $77 million, well ahead of the earnings of any other transportation corporation. President Saunders estimates that by eliminating duplicate tracks and terminals between the Wabash and Nickel Plate, he will save at least $25 million a year and make the profit picture prettier...
...mordant power is in evidence again and again, but Toys combines it with a broadened sense of humanity. Always sharp at characterization, the author of The Little Foxes has become more probing and wide-ranging about character. She has passed from human greed to something at times no prettier but much more universalizing: human need, the ego's fierce need to be needed and be loved, and hence its ugly need, when foiled, to hurt or betray or destroy. In Toys it is not vixen teeth that bite, but human lips denied a kiss...