Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis...
...Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...
Tall, good-looking, social, Bishop-elect Robbins has no worries about an old-age pension or about living on the salary of a Bishop-Coadjutor ($7,500). About the time he resigned his deanship last spring he was left by a bachelor uncle a legacy...
Optimism effected Helen Keller. With blind eyes she envisioned practical consequences tomorrow of what was wisest to do today. Through only a month of this practical optimism, she learned language at the age of seven. Miss Keller's career has also a social significance. The mind of no other deaf-blind has been reached so successfully, by such a variety of people. No longer are deaf-blinds classed with idiots in the statutes of any progressive State. No longer are deaf-blinds permitted to withdraw from society into their aching shells. To the Forest Hills, L. I. door of Helen...
...policy of practical experience was the scene of a "leap week", at which time the young ladies of the institution overthrew the conventional male dominance and took matters into their own hands. Feeling that a time had come for a serious consideration of the problem of feminine control of social matters, the traditional masculine yoke was removed and the girls were given their chance. They were allowed to request the company of a favored gentleman "without the least embarrassment", and to enjoy generally the "freedom" of masculine life. The dances had a well-filled stag, or more correctly, doe line...