Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Choose an ambassador for his wife" is a saw not applicable to William Phillips. He has himself charm enough for the most difficult social encounter. "He is the only man," said one traveler, "who could be popular in Europe with a cross-eyed termagant for a wife." It happens, however, that Mr. Phillips, having reached age 32, married some years ago a Manhattan girl (Caroline Astor Drayton) whose charm matched his, and whose beauty outshone his manners...
...United States rights not belonging to members of the League Council in the Court will be forced by the logic of events into understanding that "splendid isolation" is and always has been a myth in American history, that we are bound by the closest of political, economic, and social ties to Europe and her problems and that five days by water and two days by air are no more effective barriers to day than the Great Walls of China...
...March 9, Professor Francis G. Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, will talk on the subject of the "Social Teachings of Jesus...
...popular mind, the term "socialism" so often connotes empassioned gentlemen who speak from soap-box platforms and who have no other platforms whatever. The red flag and the harangue had no place with the earliest formulators of socialistic principle. Socialists of the stamp of Russean and Babeux, for instance, saw in their rather visionary conceptions of a commonalty of mankind the most complete amelioration of the social evils that beset France in the 18th century. With the gradual disruption and decay of the French monarchy and the Church in France there had come a surprising shake-up of society...
...places where styles originate. There is Hollywood and Bar Barbor Deanville and Newport, Lido Venice, St. Moritz, Palm Beach, Epsom Downs, Paris, West-bury, New Haven and Princeton. "Men who know and care about what to wear," reads the legend underneath, "gather at these places for business, pleasure, or social activities" Cambridge, to the sartorial lexicographer of Hart. Schaffner and Marx, is terra incognita, a wild land whence explorers bring back tales of wild and unkempt savages, untailored philistines...