Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupies an expensive suite of rooms at the luxurious Carlton Hotel on 16th Street. A good and frequent host himself, he accepts all invitations out, is one of the most lionized Senators in Washington. Ironic comments are sometimes heard on the contrast between his political representation and his social activities. In Senate debate which he enters frequently he is gruff and bull-voiced. Earnestness rather than humor flavors his remarks. He gesticulates freely and, when thoroughly aroused, rubs his hands together vigorously and tugs his right ear. He takes an active, if not leading, part in many movements (unemployment relief...
Between the Protestants and Catholics is the Anglican Church (Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.), comparatively small (membership, some 1,250,000), comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
...York Times (Democratic): "We should have warmly greeted some Englishman distinguished in literature or science or social work who could have moved freely among us to give and take the best of either nation. This was not to be, and in the selection of Sir Ronald Lindsay a plain hint is given that the British Government expects to do a great deal of important business with...
...successfully Chicago's university has built up, not only as a great educational plant beneath the midwestern sky, but as a civic and social project far more present in the minds of Chicagoans than, for example, Columbia is in New Yorkers' minds or the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphians', was suggested by the list of people who accepted invitations to the Hutchins inaugural last week. It was a list much like the roster of first-nighters at the opening of Chicago's new Civic Opera House (TIME, Nov. 4, 18). Included were: President & Mrs. James Simpson of Marshall Field...
...center for research in biology and sociology at Yale, are a residential unit for the study of child development, a residential and treatment unit for the study of mental efficiency and mental diseases, modern laboratories for psychological investigations, and facilities for research in sociology, including social psychology, economics, and government...