Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wing of the city machine. The other consists . . . partly of such of the ostensible respectable elements of the communi- ty as are willing (in Pittsburgh, for example) to shut their eyes and make common cause with gangsters, vote thieves, dive keepers, criminals and harlots, because of the social and financial eminence of the Mellon name...
...doubtful from several points of view. In practice Harvard does play, or has until the recent Princeton break, four other rivals which are rapidly becoming traditional, Brown, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Princeton. Furthermore in traditional rivalries, the game itself is less rather than more emphasized because of the large social element. Certainly the football game and the crew race with Yale are social events in which the athletic contests themselves are almost minor. It might be pointed out that the schedule next year contains two intersectional games which will hardly decrease the excessive prominence of the games preceding Yale...
...Cheerful Fraud. To win Ann Kent (Gertrude Olmstead), beauteous social secretary to opulent Mrs. Bytheway, Sir Michael Fairlie (Reginald Denny) bows himself into the position of social secretary to Mr. Bytheway. Ann Kent makes all the trouble seem worthwhile when she falls victim to the fraud and becomes Lady Michael Fairlie...
...COULD STAND UP-Ford Madox Ford-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Author Ford's three-volume metaphor for what the War did to the presumable core of England is herewith completed. There are deep scars, wrought by much cleaving to duty. The scene is littered with social and personal wreckage. But the core survives...
...Significance of Author Ford's work, aside from its having established him as never before in the forefront of contemporary writers, is its relentless penetration and comprehension of personal and social values too subtle to be more than hinted at by lesser men. The chronicle unfolds itself, chiefly through the disordered thought currents and abrupt conversations of the characters, with all the perplexing yet inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being...