Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossroads. She needs to know nothing about high policy, but she must know a lot about politicians. She is a master of the cross-phone invitation (tell the Chief Justice the Secretary is coming, tell the Secretary the Chief Justice is coming, get both).* She is a kind of social crossroads; her guests come not so much to see her as to see each other. Her satisfaction comes from hobnobbing conspicuously with the great and near-great...
...Strangers. Once, when Washington itself was only a malarial outpost on the banks of the Potomac, Virginia society considered the Government its own social corral. The entire U.S. Government consisted of less than 50 officials, and few were strangers to Virginia's hostesses. The ladies called familiarly at the White House, and Dolly Madison, with bird-of-paradise feathers nodding from her famed turbans, drove through the muddy streets to return the calls...
Most First Ladies, thrust into power by their husbands' skill in electioneering, were either unfitted, disinclined or too poor for the expensive game. Young, dark-eyed Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the last White House mistress to exert social dominance (she frowned on the bustle and the bustle disappeared). The White House experienced a brief, last burst of gaiety when "Princess Alice" Roosevelt (now the widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) made her debut there and was serenaded wherever she went with Alice Blue Gown...
Four separate conferences are scheduled for this morning. One on educational administration will meet in the Parlor Room of PBH, another on elementary education gather's in Littauer Auditorium, and meetings of English and Social Studies teachers will take place in the Hotel Commander and Agassiz Theater respectively...
...Friday such subjects as: educational institutions' adjustment to progress, successful classroom practices, the responsibility of social education for the teaching of human relations, the implications of atomic energy for social education, and the implications of modern penology for social education will be reviewed...