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As in all such pieces nowadays, the fight-talk, crook-talk and woman-talk is entertaining and inoffensive because it seems to come from the interstices, rather than the undercrust of contemporary society.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thanks to a merciful Providence, I'd come so fur without bein' buttered on the undercrust of that automobile or scalped with its crazy shover's bowie-knife.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt

Ruth's body was solid, and when she fell in the snow the undercrust broke like an eggshell.

From Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box by Emerson, Alice B.

The high point was right where the undercrust stopped, back a dozen miles or more from the edge of the overthrust, so that became the Divide.

From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard

He has no real sympathy or knowledge of the social undercrust where the tangle of three is a constant theme.

From Rudyard Kipling by Palmer, John