Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling I do not mean glad-handing collegiatism and sartorial standardization. Few lament the lack of those things. And it must be admitted that individualism could not exist without a certain amount of tolerance. But for all that we have our intellectual snobs, and our athletic snobs, and our social snobs, and our anti-social snobs, and there is little democracy in us. We pursue our own interests whole-heartedly and unhampered, but we are apt to look upon those who follow other paths with utmost scorn...
Distinguishing between the Tammany Society and the political machine controlled by its members is something like distinguishing between the social and the business implications of a Lions' Club luncheon. What Grand Sachem Voorhis meant was that there is such a thing as the Society of St. Tammany, founded in Revolutionary times by a New York upholsterer named William Mooney to give the bourgeoisie a club comparable to the aristocratic Society of the Cincinnati, to which only New York's fine families belonged. An Indian patron-saint and Indian rigmarole were adopted as a protest against Toryism. The objects...
...Grand Sachem Voorhis' point still stands. The social activities of old gentlemen far beyond the age of active politicians, are not to be confused with the Democratic party of New York City...
Miss Newman undoubtedly possesses a gift for social satire. Given a training in the rudiments of good English and deprived of her more erotically minded heroines she should be able to turn out something quite amusing in the way of an acid commentary of life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle...
While an undergraduate Wolcott rowed on the crew against Yale at New London and took a large part in the social activities of his class...