Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, the White House social season was canceled, and the President prepared to move out of the executive mansion on his return from Key West. He would begin his second term in office in historic Blair House,* a 124-year-old, four-story yellow stucco house on Pennsylvania Avenue, which the State Department bought six years ago to house distinguished visitors from abroad. Cheek by jowl with it is Lee House, which the President will also take over. Workmen are already cutting out a connecting doorway...
...with the able assistance of her daughter Anna, Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the air with a new program, and a new radio personality. Her first broadcast won raves in the trade-and flustered Washington. Speaking by transcription from Paris, where she is a member of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, Commentator Roosevelt let fly with some salvos that were notable for both clarity of diction and political candor. Samples...
...varsity members of the football team will be admitted without charge to the House dances tonight, under arrangements made by the Key with the Inter-House Social Committee. However, Yale's football squad will first attend a private banquet after the game...
Today the Crimson Key Society will be concentrating on the non-athletic phase of its activities. For the majority of Yale students this means that there will be social activities in Cambridge this evening instead of a train trip back to Connecticut...
...Social Solution...