Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House winter social season came to an official end last week when the President and Mrs. Coolidge, beneath flags in the Blue Room, received officers of the Army & Navy and many another guest-2,500 in all. General John J. Pershing was present...
...Metropolitan Opera House hummed its loudest and busiest. Every half minute, a notable trod down a plush aisle: a social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd...
...Giannini is president of the East River National Bank, New York (see p. 28). Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Arthur Schnitzler are unequivocally authors, whereas Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Richard Cabot make authorship complementary to medicine.* Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur quit medicine to take up the social chores that President Emeritus David Starr Jordan (also a graduate physician) began, and Dr. John Casper Branner carried on until his resignation...
Hearken, friends, it is a story droP Of Gypsy Gorman, Spanish, chorus girl, Who wed for love, of course he had a roll, And tried to swim the social whirl. Jimmy Ralston was the wealthy swain Who wed this, Jewish, chorus dame; For act and act he tries in vain His Mother's wrath to fully maim...
...Scholarship today seems to be an affair for the shut-ins and queer fellows." He described the fraternity type of student: "Facile in the classroom and ready with answers in emergencies . . . superficial . . . the fellow who comes to class with a hangover and gets by, nevertheless. . . . Fraternity men, with their social advantages and intellectual capability, should form the nucleus of the group of creative personalities...