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  • There are also plenty of other cases of songs like Glasgow Peggy where the marriage out of love turns out to be above the station of the woman because the man pretends to be of lowerclass.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Robert Bork and the Contradictions of Conservatism: 2009

  • The plan was to have this song downloaded and the proceeds use to help lowerclass american .i cant get no help to get the publicity to do this .

    We Listen – Your comments 10/22/2009 2009

  • But, lowerclass Americans are struggling to make "ends-meat".

    Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • On the contrary, I am persuaded that the direction has been reversed and that we now observe evidence of a growing separation between ruling and lowerclass culture in America, a separation which is particularly enhanced by the rapid growth of technology and the spreading influence of its laissez innover ideologues.

    A Special Supplement: Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals McDermott, John 1969

  • We appreciate that masturbation may be defined as tolerable on some mental wards, but we tend to overlook the implications of this for normal lowerclass, one-sexed settings.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • The old prejudices, too, sometimes slip out - when he moves to Hull he moans about living in a house among 'filthy lowerclass swine.'

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • This goes entirely to the upperclass and lowerclass. for dam sakes!

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.

    Ulysses 2003

  • For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Why don’t you (Apollo developers & Silverlight) MBAs and super geniuses travel down to Datriot, New Orleans, Maine, LA, lowerclass in nj, and poor states.

    Silverlight: The Web Just Got Richer Nik Cubrilovic 2005

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