Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children living in London, and he threw all the notes away. He can reach high C without effort, but he contorts his face, whites his knuckles, and sobs a little to let the fans know that he is hitting a home run. Sometimes he misses on purpose, making his upper register sound like a row of tuberculous frogs. The audience dies for him. But he gamely tries again, hitting the note perfectly the second time. They cheered him for it last week at the Copa. They always...
Scott Fitzgerald's bromide that the rich "are different from you and me" got a little new fizz from a Federal Reserve survey of upper-income families...
...girls meet in an upper East Side "snob hatchery...
...with the whole English race. It is a form of infighting of which Elaine Dundy is plainly a well-scarred veteran. Before she is through, any true-blue U.S. reader is likely to feel that even a money-mad American would-be murderess is less lethal than the British upper classes who snub her in the drawing room and condescend to her in the boudoir...
...bucket in this case is worn by Conrad Castiletz, an upper-middle-class Viennese businessman whose ordered life is shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever...