Word: sociality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, brown-haired, pearl-necklaced and, according to Sunday magazine articles, "superbly formed." In office hours, in sombre office attire, she looks perhaps more resolute than charming, and most of the pearls are hidden beneath her dress. But at social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week...
...GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS ALWAYS MY OWN IDEAL AS IT WAS THAT OF MY UNFORGETTABLE FATHER, HAS BEEN SO ABUSED BY BLIND PARTY PASSIONS THAT IT PREVENTED EVERY USEFUL DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE. THE PEOPLE HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN THE INSTITUTION. IN THE PARLIAMENT EVEN THE COMMON DECENCIES OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN PARTIES AND INDIVIDUALS HAVE BECOME IMPOSSIBLE...
...Bernardin is a young clergyman of scholarly and social graces, educated at Yale and at the patrician Magdalen College, Oxford. The young headmaster of the cathedral's choir school, Rev. William Dudley Foulkes Hughes, an especial protege of Bishop Manning's, also is an Oxford man, but he attended the quite plebeian Hertford College there. Nevertheless, as bishop's friend, Mr. Hughes was able to irritate Dean's Assistant Bernardin. At last Mr. Bernardin could stand no more and resigned, preferring charges against Mr. Hughes...
...newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships. He had correspondents in Washington...
...Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive the waning interest of the Juniors in their one big unified social endeavor. Sincerely yours, Philip Donham...