Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Biographies of Mrs. Smith are scarce. She is not in the Social Register. She is mentioned sparingly in the standard life of her husband.* It was undoubtedly a social service, therefore, and perhaps a political service, when Parker Lloyd-Smith, able young editorial writer of the Albany Knickerbocker-Press (Republican), last week published a sketch of Mrs. "Katie" Smith...
...Even in Albany, where she has presided over the social life of the Executive Mansion for seven years, few women really know her. They see her at the inaugural balls and occasionally at a small dinner. Her face is familiar as it is framed against the back seat of an open Packard, license No. 2. The Dutch aristocracy of Albany noted the gradual improvement of her appearance as the sales-ladies of Altman's [Manhattan department store] have become more adept at finding becoming gowns for her, and on the rare occasions when she stands in the receiving line...
...began to pour in. She was equally indifferent to the snubs and the flattery. The Executive Mansion was filled with her friends of Oliver street days and she had neither time nor inclination to cultivate a new circle of acquaintances. Al himself delivered one sharp rebuke to a local social leader who tried to climb on the bandwagon, but Katie simply didn't care. She had what she wanted...
...Haven, Conn., were reported to be "harmonious with the situation." Professor Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, geographer, whose hobby is eugenics, said: "From a purely scientific standpoint, it was the correct thing for her [Mrs. Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought of the unknown-unmarried-young-man-father, debated whether Vera would some day be made unhappy by whispering schoolfellows and whether she would become actress, author, businesswomen, scientist or recluse...
...musical play, the action of "The Desert Song" is intricate. Pierre Birabeau, played by Robert Halliday, is known in North African social circles as the half-wit son of Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...