Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have to explain that my country, in addition to being generous and sympathetic toward Finland, is also tenderhearted and wants to make sure that none of this money will be used in such a way as might cause injury or discomfiture to a Russian aviator flying over the working-class section of a Finnish town. ... I always try to explain this point of view without making my countrymen look like a bunch of sentimental whacks...
...Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels ordered Nazi newspapers to fire away full blast at "plutocracy." Result: the Nazi movement was described as a "revolt against capitalism." Great Britain was pictured as a nation in which the ruling class lived in luxury while the workers starved...
...obscure the most important fact: quiet, stocky William Gropper, a punch-packing cartoonist, is a still better painter. He paints as he draws, quickly and simply, without benefit of model, in reds, blues, yellows, whites. His masters are Breughel, Goya and Daumier. He does not disgrace them. Typically class-conscious canvases at the A. C. A. show: The Shoemaker, who is mending other men's shoes while barefoot himself; Brenda in a Tantrum, which shows 1939's Glamor Girl No. 1 streaming indignantly through the air; Art Patrons (see cut), a jut-jawed couple gazing bleakly...
...14th round the Chilean was still on his feet, and the 16,000 spectators were cheering him wildly. Exhilarated, Godoy put on a performance as bizarre as any thing ever seen in a first-class prize ring. Deliberately tormenting Louis, he jumped up & down like a boy playing squat tag, grimaced & grinned and finally, after doing a few mock rumba steps, threw his arms around the champion and kissed him on both cheeks. A few moments later, when Louis was awarded the decision, Godoy hugged him again & again...
...head of Harvard's gowned seniors as they parade by John Harvard's statue in the Yard each commencement marches a solemn, gimlet-eyed figure, blocking off photographers' lenses from the graduating class. It is Charles Robert ("Colonel Charlie") Apted, Harvard's head "Yard cop." Charlie dearly loves to march in this parade: He also loves Harvard. Last week was one of mixed emotions for Charlie Apted. In Harvard's paneled old Memorial Hall 600 Harvardmen dined & wined him, the Harvard Glee Club sang Behold the Lord High Executioner and photographers' lenses blinked again...