Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Urban Britons were amazed. Of the 59,000 girls enlisted or drafted into the Women's Land Army, about 30,000 wanted to stay there after March 1, their demobilization day. They lived on lonely farms and in remote hamlets. For pay as low as $9.60 a week, they worked long hours in fields swept by wet winds. Weekly dances at the local pubs, occasional trips to nearby market towns, replaced the city life in which most of them had grown...
...Lost Weekend (Paramount) follows its dipsomaniac hero to the hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...
...S.H.P. likes land reform, but it also distinctly favors private land ownership. By classic standards it is slightly left of center, but it comprises the right wing of the present democratic bloc, and it is nonsocialist. The S.H.P. recently gained urban strength in the Budapest municipal elections, and it was expected up to last week-to gain rural strength in the national elections...
...Enid's saloons for patrons to sleep it off. "Gillespie Brothers was the best for sights. At Sunday-school time on Sunday morning you might see the forms of men who had been there all night, still as stiff as cordwood." Markey met the heavy financial demands of urban life, first by cleaning spittoons and later by delivering special delivery letters on his bicycle. Most lucrative customer was glamorous Miss Josephine Barnabee, whose big, yellow fancy-house on Two Street was the most refined establishment of its kind in town. Miss Josephine got more specials than anyone else...
...never intended for publication; but he was "not displeased that the problem is now in the open." He still defended his course as the right one for Dartmouth: "Any college of restricted enrollment must depend on quotas in everything-as to East and West, public and private schools, urban and agricultural areas, and racial groups as well...