Word: uppityness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything is not entirely rosy in the nation's charity stores. Denver's 70-year-old Agnes Lewis, friend of a generation of Larimer Street down-&-outers, has been almost driven out of business by full employment. Most of her customers have gone uppity, and now insist upon...
It would be a prosperous Christmas. Throughout December, U.S. stores had been crowded as never before; sales topped those in 1941, when everyone had told himself it would be the last real Christmas for the duration. The people did not insist on luxuries, or on necessities ; they bought everything. With...
In Detroit, cash-heavy war workers are making a big splash, but mostly in noisy, smoky, gaudy places which look like overgrown Bierstuben. At the big Bowery Club trumpet-mouthed Martha Raye draws over 1,200 customers nightly to break house records. Almost all Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers...
The real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to...
>"The stage mgr of 'Johnny 2 x 4' is getting very uppity-puppity with the actors."