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Third class railway passengers : The Evening Standard

Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their male detached lives. All politics. Deliberate, well set up, contemptuous & indifferent to the feminine. For example: one man hands the E. Standard, points to a womans photograph. "Women? Let her go home & bowl her hoop" said the man in blue serge with one smashed eye [...] Odd to look into this cool man's world: so weather tight: insurance clerks on top of their work [...] Not a chink through which one can see art, or books. They play cross words when insurance shop fails.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Third class railway passengers     Print: Newspaper

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