Word: redbricked
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...corpulent pederast who splashes in a gold-plated bathtub while his people eat mice and provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police. His army and his oilfields are controlled by the British, but the British legate is a bumfembedded chargé, and his aides are tired old faggots and redbrick rejects. The Russians infiltrate, the colonels plot, the inevitable coup transpires in a scarlet smear of violence. The story falters in its final pages, but Mossman never relents his graceful ridicule ("The Russian delegation in their square-rigged tunics and striped trousers arrived at the palace, looking like a band...
...beginning last November, the Coop quietly negotiated with Dietz a peace part of which he, to put it middle, will be the benefactor. The Coop pledged, by the end of this summer, be install terns along Palmer Street and repave it with take cobblestones and redbrick of a $40,000 job. And it will hand over to Dietz $5,000, almost half of his court costs. Dietz's prices is a promise that he will never again challenge the Coop before any administrative or judicial body...
...anything that they asked in order to stay near her, rather than be shipped off to a forced-labor camp in Germany. When he returned, a hunted, hated collaborator, to her after the war, she hid him in the empty garret above her second-story apartment in a grim, redbrick building in a working-class suburb of Lille...
...Winchester, in Hampshire, a stronghold of Conservatism and site of one of Britain's best public schools, Rear Admiral Morgan Giles, 50, won as expected from Laborite Patrick Seyd, 23, a teacher at Southampton's redbrick university. Though he lost, Seyd had a good time proclaiming the injustice of the British public school system, which heavily favors the rich and socially prominent, advocated more scholarships to schools like Winchester...
...class feeling remains stronger in Britain than anywhere else in Western Europe. The very fact that a new "aristocracy of achievement" has risen up, through scholarships and redbrick universities, to breach the Establishment has made many Tories more class-conscious than before. This in turn produces resentment among newcomers, who feel that they are not really welcomed by the old crowd. The game of "class spotting," a charade around the infinite variety of right or wrong in speech or dress, is being played in Britain more cruelly than ever. It is against this background of class distinction, paradoxically both keener...