Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nevertheless, it has begun to dawn on some Britons that the pub is something out of the past in more ways than one. Class-conscious publicans still provide a "saloon" for the gentry and a "public" bar for the lower classes, where a pint is a penny cheaper. Dog-eared signs command: "No Singing," "No Gambling," "No Credit." Listening to phonograph records or sports broadcasts is forbidden. Finally, there is the most exasperating restriction of all-"Time, gentlemen, please," which is the theme song of the most bewildering set of license laws in Christendom...
Liberals blasted Babbitt's disdain for the class struggle, conservatives his acerb attitude toward religious enthusiasm. Anglican Poet Eliot suggested that he was "trying to build a Catholic platform out of Protestant planks." He was a man perhaps defined only by his enemies. In the end, if he could not say himself precisely what he was trying to say, he did once quote a bit of doggerel that seemed...
...blew in and began spouting crude at the rate of 100,000 bbl. a day. In the rush that followed, oil companies paid millions of dollars for choice concessions. Providing services and equipment to the oil industry made a thin upper crust gorgeously rich, but scarcely benefited such middle-class families as the Betancourts. Rómulo went to work as a bill collector for a wholesale tobacco firm, played sand-lot soccer (right forward), entered the law school of Caracas' Central University...
...Left," almost (but not quite) comes off as the Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera) of the fat '50s. Director Rolf Thiele and Scenarist Erich Kuby have lifted their plot from some recent accounts in Germany's tabloids of the gay life and ghastly death of Rosie Nitribitt, a high-class floozy of Frankfurt who opened her door to dozens of West German millionaires but couldn't keep her mouth shut, and so one night was strangled with a pair of her own nylons (TIME, Sept. 29, 1958). The movie takes the sordid case as an occasion for social satire...
Dozens of girls were picked up in railroad stations with the sweet-little-old-lady routine. Immigrant girls from Ireland were scooped up in Liverpool, where they were met at the boat by procuresses dressed as Sisters of Mercy. Better-class girls were taken in by proper-sounding newspaper advertisements. Even upper-class children were not safe. Procuresses of good education proposed themselves as governesses and then abducted the children in their charge. The younger the victim and the higher her station, the better the price she brought. A teen-age girl of the working class was worth no more...