Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fringes of the Communist upper-crust drift several hundred fellow U.S. Communists and fellow travelers of lesser rank. Bearded and beardless, they idle away the hours in avant-garde jazz cellars, drink tequila and loaf. But the top-line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even...
Drifting toward South Dakota, Simons recorded three facts that challenge man's notions of the upper atmosphere: ¶ The sky above him was completely dark at high noon, but he could not see any stars or planets. Therefore, contrary to expectations, aviators of the future may not be able to rely on daytime celestial navigation...
Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...girl was a slender French blonde, and only 16. That summer of 1910, when the mornings were warm and clear, she would go down to the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...
Seen superficially, Arthur Winner needs no more education. He is a successful lawyer in his 50s, a figure of Roman rectitude, a bald, grave patrician, sage and self-contained. In his middle-sized home town of Brocton (possibly located in Pennsylvania), he belongs to a comfortable upper class that has the attitudes if not the acreage of landed gentry. Within a 49-hour period, fissures of revelation about Winner's closest friends-and about himself-rip open this safe and stolid world, and almost swallow...