Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England last Sunday, lean young men from the U.S. took English girls punting on the placid reaches of the upper Thames. English children played at storming the walls of Festung Europa. Maimed men, for whom the war is already over, sunned themselves by convalescent homes. The drone of motors grew steadily stronger...
Boulevards and Boudoirs. Helen Goes to Troy translates Homer into French bedroom farce. Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes. Its Hellas consists entirely of boulevards and boudoirs. Its Helen, beneath her classical robes, is a bored upper-class Parisienne whose bumbling bourgeois spouse Menelaus (well played by Ernest Truex) is sent on a trip to Naxos, returns unexpectedly to find his wife in bed with Paris, an unawakened but erotically gifted Trojan shepherd...
...White Cow gave birth to a man child whom she called Kola; his grandson was Ukwa. Ukwa took two wives, beautiful holy maidens who rose out of the sacred river. One of Ukwa's sons, Nyakang, a Negro, went south to the swampy country of the Upper Nile; there he founded the Shilluk nation and became its first ret (ruler) and a demigod. That was about four centuries...
Dewey shows particular strength: 1) among men (women give F.D.R. a vote 2% above the average); 2) among people over 35 (younger people give F.D.R. 6% above average); 3) among the upper economic third of the nation; 4) in the northeast -i.e., north of the Ohio, east of the Mississippi...
...Heirs. No one has ever disputed Joe Day's claim that he sold "at least a third of the Bronx" and almost as big a slice of Queens, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. Last week one eloquent obituary estimated that if all his sales were strung end to end they would "make a strip 100 ft. wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific." He was also a fanatically successful booster of New York and of the U.S., was famed for his war-bond sales and social services. Stuck in London when War I broke...