Word: upper-class
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...wears a girdle. Their children no more appear in hand-me-downs; working-class boys wear blazers, and girls blue jeans. More dramatic, say merchants, are changes in their choice of food and furnishings. Twice as much sherry is drunk today as ten years ago. Housewives ignore cheap meat cuts in favor of chicken and roast beef; avocados and chow mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with more money to spend, has adopted what was once an upper-class custom: dining out. Women's magazines read mainly by the working class carry...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part three of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part 3 of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...
...Newton survey showed that fathers in upper-class families smoke less than those in the lower classes. While this confirmed earlier surveys of parental influence on youngsters' smoking habits, the Newton researchers concluded that social class was a more powerful influence. As to why smoking is not entirely U, the doctors...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. The crisply written but melancholy-minded third volume of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime?an obsolete, upper-class way of life and death that began to turn grey for Author Waugh and his hero when the Russians became Britain's allies...