Word: second-class
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Critic's Mission. The Defense Department billeted the troupe downtown in the second-class but comparatively safe Hotel Meyerkord. A sentry watch was set around the area and even in the sewer mains beneath it. Quipped Merrick at his first press conference: "It's no more dangerous here than it is in New York on any opening night...
...much the same veto power as the I.T.U. "We believe that if the company is under the pressure of one union," says Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy, "the other union is going to be left out in the cold. We don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
...riches to the insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphenated Americans (the Italian-and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against a hated enemy of their home country but acquired needed prestige in America...
...George was not cut out to be a second-class celestial. When he died last week in Philadelphia, at an undocumentable age close to 100, he had long since reached the terrestrial top of his profession and, in a skeptical age, out lived Olympus. As Father Divine, the pyknic, cherub-faced leader of countless thousands who believed that he was God Himself and Dean of the Universe had, in a sense, shuffled off the mortal coil some 50 years earlier...
...riches to the insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphened Americans (the Italian- and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against a hated enemy of their home country but acquired needed prestige in America...