Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately so many great daily journals have dared call syphilis and gonorrhea by their right names that University of Illinois Daily Illini Editor John Mabley fortnight ago saw no reason why the fight against social disease should not be carried forward by the college papers. Especially did he think a crusade timely when he discovered that the university town of Champaign had one of the highest venereal disease rates in Illinois...
...fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot. For the next four decades, from nine to five he bustled in action at Independence Square, went home to dinner with a parcel of manuscripts under his arm, read them until late hours. He shunned public appearances, social life...
Word spread through Los Angeles fortnight ago that the city's Art Association was soon to open an ultra-select exhibit of International Art, to whose vernissage none but California's double thick social cream would be invited. One day last week the invited cream, 2,000 strong, flowed fatly to the intimate opening. They came from parties given by such art-lovers as Norma Shearer and Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner and jostled, perspired, stared at each other instead of at the pictures. After the first day, the milk of the citizenry to the number...
...overcome Angeleno Art-resistance, Art Association head William May Garland* has planned such inducements as garden parties, teas, a Motion Picture Day, International Day, Junior League Day, Friday Morning Club Day. Last week the Art Association, quietly admitting that social and even business advantages accrue to its members, was gathering them in by leaps & bounds...
...plantation life still offered its pre-Civil War social opportunities, pretty Letty Allard would never have sought diversion in the city, would not have fallen in with the fast country-club set where she met her unresisted married seducer, Jim Carter. And Jim, if he had lived in the Old South, would have been a sportsman instead of a frustrated adman and then manager of his Yankee father-in-law's diaper factory. And particularly, in the Old South there would have been no Yankee manufacturer to corrupt the South's younger generation with show-off social vulgarity...