Word: public
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascinations, brilliance, high-life systems and customs, bewildering scenery and surroundings, being paired with or alone with strangers at glowing public functions with unlimited flow of every variety of liquor at every turn, with dance halls and drinking tables on the side, richly dressed and sweet-voiced hosts and uniformed waiters repeatedly urging visitors of every age, including . . . girls, to drink-thank God our girls came home unsullied and never will know how near the brink they were. With Governor Dickinson were his adopted granddaughter, Delia Patterson, 25, and his secretary, Margaret Shaw...
...party was a charming little girl in her sweet innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
Usually the annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared...
Most noteworthy Italian exponent of the Fascist dictum that woman's place is in the home is none other than Donna Rachele Mussolini. For more than two decades this 49-year-old onetime waitress has been a strict homebody, has been seldom seen and never heard in public, has mean while presented her lord, Benito Mussolini, with no less than four strapping bambinos...
...Forli with his own paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front...