Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...million scheme a "forced loan," Professor Keynes is tireless in his calm, persuasive retorts. He starts by asking everyone to remember how, during World War I, prices rose much faster than wages (as they are again doing in Britain), argues that even though war wages run high, the working class suffers an actual loss in "real wages" from this "spiral of inflation." It is obviously much more to the workers' advantage, he insists, to be left at the end of the war with a packet of 2½% securities than to have nothing left but the memory...
...town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was going to college at Wake Forest, N. C. At Lenoir, young Dougherty cloppered on to a train, the first he ever did see. Finding the second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the sharp-witted hillbilly pointed to a sign forbidding passengers to change cars while the train was in motion. He rode first-class all the way to Raleigh...
Roman Catholic position: Such a gadget is harmless but not efficacious, in the same class as a prayer ring (which has ten notches so that the wearer may count his prayers). Indulgences (i.e., remissions of temporal punishment for repented sin) will not be granted for any number of push-buttoned prayers...
...Leverage trusts need not revamp their capital structures, but henceforth no investment trust, new or old, may issue more than one class of securities: common stock...
...feminine lead in Bethel Merriday is an earnest small girl from a middle-class New England household who takes college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...