Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared, the crowd made the trees shake with their racket. Away from the speaker's stand, as far as he could see, stretched the shirt-sleeved crowd, under the maples and oaks whose lower branches were cut away to lengthen the view. Sunlight filtered through the green upper branches and pierced the dust that rose in the grove. The crowd cheered through Representative Charles Halleck's introduction of Speaker Joe Martin, cheered through Joe Martin's introduction of Wendell Willkie, cheered Willkie for ten minutes before he could begin. They wanted a hell-fire-and-brimstone speech...
Free train rides, paid for by the Egyptian Government, last week made evacuation of Alexandria so popular that Egyptians evacuated themselves many times over. Weekends away from the city and visits to relatives in the provinces were enjoyed on free evacuation tickets. Catching on, residents of Upper Egypt paid their fare to Alexandria and rode home on the Government...
Most white folks suppose that all colored folks are low class. Not so. U. S. Negroes "differ socially among themselves as far as the poles," have at least six classes: lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle, upper. Upper-class Negroes describe their inferiors as "the common, ignorant sort of niggers." It is his class, rather than his race, which determines a Negro's behavior, personality, ambitions...
...authors were Dr. John Dollard, of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, and Allison Davis, head of the social studies department at Dillard University, now lecturing at University of Chicago. Allison Davis, a lightskinned, upper-class Negro, has degrees from Williams and Harvard, studied at the London School of Economics, won so many honors at Williams that he got a prize for winning prizes...
...rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful for a rescuing Colonel Blimp. "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel...