Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visions of rebellion may have flashed temptingly through their lordships' minds. But too well they knew the retribution in store for them if they misbehaved; some particularly brash commoners had even murmured darkly of dissolving the upper chamber entirely. Declared Lord Swinton: "Lord Merthyr's is not a wise view to express in this century." He concluded by sternly advising Lord Merthyr to "revise his estimate of the comparative value of valor and discretion...
Farago's first issue featured sober articles on U.N.'s Military Staff Committee, the plans to broaden Britain's traditionally upper-crust Foreign Office, and Russia's efforts to dominate civil aviation in Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example...
...What writers belonging to the upper class have received from nature for nothing, plebeians acquire at the cost of their youth." James Farrell, a self-conscious plebeian -who has already estimated the cost of youth in the hundreds of thousands of words of his Studs Lonigan trilogy and Danny O'Neill tetralogy - quotes this remark of Anton Chekhov's at the beginning of Bernard Clare. It is the first of a new series of novels about a young. Chicago-Irish plebeian who fights against odds to make himself into a novelist...
House masters are leaving the matter of where the extra man will sleep up to the individuals themselves, but in most instances the added man is expected to draw an upper bunk, sharing a bedroom with one of his roommates. In some suites, bedrooms are large enough to accommodate two single beds...
Defending the negative viewpoint against a visiting Princeton team will be David Funk, NROTC, Elton C. McNeil '49, and Monroe S. Singer '47; this contest will begin at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...