Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponents, Dr. Robertson, Independent, called back: "Professional character assassins . . . social pariahs who prey like ghouls upon the weaknesses of mankind . . . filthy parasites." Fred Lundin, onetime crony and mentor of Mr. Thompson, now backing Dr. Robertson said: "My only answer to Thompson for calling me a rat and his other vile and untruthful references is that for a period of eight years he lived most of the time at this rat's house and was willing and eager to gnaw at this rat's table...
...time or another these men and their sons have handled practically every piece of real estate in Atlanta. Forrest Adair has won national repute among Masons for beginning, at Atlanta, the movement for Masonic hospitals for crippled children. He is a Past Illustrious Potentate of the Shrine (social organizations of 32° Masons...
...wild-honeymoons, by telling all to the newspapers. That is where the narrator comes in, as an astute young literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many liaisons; a social-climbing physician whose heart is in interior decorating; a reportorial dandy...
There are no available statistics to show how many marriages result from college engagements but if there were they would mean nothing. Higher education, properly speaking, has little to do with higher social education, although one may be obtained in the process of digging for the other. Popular fiction has over idealized scholastic matings. And now universities such as that for which the Nebraskan is the spokesman are faced with the problem of removing the gloss of idealism...
...clock, Book Reviews. "Social Ethics" by Professor Ford...