Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constantly making themselves disliked by their arrogant and aggressive and superior attitude and also they unconsciously insult all the South Americans by their stupid rendition of the language. The behavior of the American men and women in the shops, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and in all public places is far beneath the quality of the English, and the behavior of the English is at least 40° below the behavior of the people from the European countries. And the Nazis and the Fascists are the best behaved and the smartest of them all in all their dealings with the South Americans...
...cities is their lack of coordination. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue has been one of the world's most turbulent and cross-purposed examples. Its elevated railway, originally constructed for steam trains, clattered relentlessly over a darkened street where tramcars, busses, taxis and trucks cacophonously disputed passage. Beneath its vibrating steel structure, messenger boys of the world's biggest clothing center further clotted the traffic by trundling loads of furs, hats and dresses in pushcarts. Sixth Avenue bristled with slums that had once been factories, factories that had once been office buildings, office buildings that had once been...
...clock on the night of May 13, beneath the potted palms of the Empire Room in Chicago's bustling Palmer House, veteran Bandmaster Jan Garber shuffled the sheets of his music, shook a stick at his first trumpet. A blast, and then, to the Jerome & Schwartz, 1903 ragtime tune Bedelia, Tin Pan Alley banged and tootled back onto the bigtime air. The broadcast was Mutual's first using ASCAP music after the last-minute signing with the songwriters' society in St. Louis (TIME...
Frazer himself thought that his books contained "a melancholy record of human error and folly." One thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...
Above the historic stones of the Acropolis last week fluttered not only the Nazi swastika but also the azure-&-white banner of Greece. "An elegant expression that we honor Greece," declared a German correspondent in Athens. But beneath the twin emblems the Nazis energetically concerned themselves not so much with honor as with the business of practical conquest...