Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island town is made up almost exclusively of people who can afford not only to buy neat Georgian houses set in landscaped parks but also to commute between them and the metropolis. We say "almost exclusively" because of one section which is called "the Valley" and deserves the name for social as well as geographical considerations. Here live the negro families, as well as the nouveaux arrives: Italians, Poles, Greeks: forming an untouchable world apart but a convenient object for the charitable inclinations of the towns-women...
...have been more radical, for Yale has been bogged down in the past by a more powerful pedagogical conservatism than her Cambridge sister. Today Yale has to her credit, among other things, a munificent endowment, fine technical facilities, a House plan comprising fine buildings, weird combination of Gothic and Georgian though they be, an increasing enrollment of celebrated scholars and teachers, as well as a Law School with few peers. Although these improvements do not by any means exhaust the list, the most striking fact about such a representative collection is that they are all of relatively recent date...
This country and Georgia in particular are to be pitied when Talmadge has enough news value to rate a cover on TIME. I as a Georgian resent his being so dignified. He definitely does not represent the better element of a grand State. His very expression shows why he is through...
What polo means to the rest of the world is in reverse ratio to its importance in that enameled frieze of polite 20th Century pleasure that constitutes September social life on Long Island. Deserted through muggy August days while the fog horns mooed unhappily along the Sound, the big Georgian houses along the North Shore were last week filled again, lighted for parties through cool evenings as their owners returned from Newport, Saratoga, Maine and Europe...
...revolting to any woman, but to a Southerner, unthinkable" would be interested to know that the writer, who is superintendent of the National Training School for Girls (the institution for white and colored girls which was so signally honored by Mrs. Roosevelt), is also a Southern woman, a Georgian, descended from slave-owning ancestry...