Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiss: I do not see how one can say categorically that one has not seen anybody. If he was attending social functions, if there were a large number of people at some occasion and he was present, I could not testify with absolute positive finality...
Hiss: I may have been in one or another place of Mr. Collins' abode when one or another or more than one of the other people you have referred to may have been present. If so, it was on some social occasion-dinner, cocktails, something of that sort...
...frequently voted with the court's "liberal wing"-Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone. New Dealers castigated him for rejecting NRA, but all the other justices rejected it too. He voted for many New Deal measures, including the Wagner Act. His attitude was that if a social revolution was being legislated, it should be legislated in an orderly, constitutional...
...President, his "righthand man" for half a century; of a neurological ailment; in Uvalde, Tex. Ettie married Judge John Nance Garner in 1895, served as his private secretary when he was elected to the House in 1902, as second lady of the land (1933-1940) shunned Washington's social life...
...read, however, as a social document, The Pleasures of the Jazz Age has the same kind of interest as a report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced...