Word: sorel
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...Anti-Semitism-"The part played by the bourgeois in popular Marxism is played in popular Naziism by the Jew . . . the principle of these inventions must be sought ... in Marx and Sorel...
...Radcliffe girls are horrible. They have hairy legs and fat fannies and shouldn't be allowed in the yard." This outspoken comment on the social problems of Brattle Street came from Miss Toni Sorel, 1940 contender for the title of number one Oomph Girl of the Nation, and currently appearing in the new Kaufman and Hart comedy "George Washington Slept Here...
...Miss Sorel was in a receptive mood as your correspondent put the bee on her at the Ritz bar, where she was lingering over a daiquiri. Her outburst against the Radcliffe Amazons came as a surprise, as she otherwise had nothing but the best to say about Harvard and its environs...
...wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers and her friends, were disappointingly undecorative save for one uncommunicative siren, Toni Sorel, whose brief appearances make Ann Sheridan's claim to the title of Oomph Queen patently absurd...
Skimming through history and throwing off such names as Proudhon, Bakunin, Sorel, Kropotkin, like a shower of sparks, Chamberlain contrasts the lively diversity of pre-war political theory with the postwar hypnosis of Marxism. He thinks most liberal thinking since 1933 has been "pretty silly" because merely a reaction from that spell. As for effective liberal organizations, the Democratic Party has been the best of a bad lot: "a loose federation of southern cotton snobs, western dirt farmers (the real heirs of Jefferson) and the machines of Jersey City's Frank Hague, Chicago's Pat Nash...