Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis no local woman has been the subject of more newspaper columns or more shocked social chitchat than lively, red-haired Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, whose father was a Baptist minister and whose brother is a Judge of Missouri's Supreme Court. Until three years ago few St. Louisans knew much more about Mrs. Muench than that she lived comfortably in fashionable Westminster Place with her respected physician-husband and that she once operated a fashionable midtown dress shop that catered to society trade...
Following the family tradition, dapper, adroit "Russ" Forgan of Glore, Forgan & Co.-whose career at Princeton (Class of 1922) set a new high for social grace and near-professional virtuosity as leading man of the Triangle Club (musical comedies)-started in at commercial banking. He was a vice president of Chicago's National Bank of the Republic when he shifted to securities by joining Messrs. Field & Glore in 1931. He now heads the Manhattan office, while Partner Glore runs the Chicago office...
...Hungarian Embassy in Egypt, with this clever, smooth novel written from a thoroughly international point of view. Chief distinction of The Street of the Fishing Cat is the ingenuity with which representatives of most of the European nations are drawn into its plot, the blistering irony with which social, political and national issues are satirized in its sentimental story...
...helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into the strange world of French school life, compensating with his intellectual triumphs for the bewilderments and pain of his social failures. The youngest girl, Klari-soon so assimilated she was called Claire-was most deeply influenced by the family transplanting, becoming vigilant and wary as a child, defiant and aloof as an adolescent, practical and forthright with a surprising insight into people as she grew...
...fresh and vivid. Best is his account of a visit, before the revolution, to Barcelona's vice-ridden Fifth District. Although he had "read about everything in Havelock Ellis and Freud," when he encountered the spectacle of perversities for sale he found his imagination could not grasp the social reality. Opposed to this grim description of "the most tragic human cantonment in Europe," are his reminiscences of a great syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before the war, where die-hard syndicalists passed a resolution that "if anyone, male or female, chanced to rouse the sexual feelings of another...