Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gras balls were strictly for the upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...wrote the Dublin correspondent of London's News Chronicle, as 1,800,000 Irishmen prepared to go to the polls this week, "is the strangest general election that ever took place. Nobody wants it. Nobody knows what it's about, and nobody, except the candidates, seems to care how it will...
...sometime even wept. They find that the better short-story artists around here just won't turn in their stuff to be printed, preferring to assail the most invincible national markets. The quality of the magazines goes down, subscribers and prestige begin to dwindle, and still fewer writers care to contribute. And all because of individualism...
...romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy existence. There will be no quarrels between neighbors and no divorces in my house...
There are certain phases of the family system that must remain the same, no matter what the culture is, he declared. Among others, these common elements include: the care of children and the aged, the physical superiority of the male, and the institution of marriage...