Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine recently left Southampton's white-flanneled sands for Emporia, Kan. At Long Island's social capital Mr. Jardine had learned to chitchat, and last week he attended a garden party of some 60 prairie editors who quizzed him on baptism and similar subjects. No religio-infantile authority, Mr. Jardine shifted the conversation to a region where he felt at home-farming, and even then delivered no farm relief oration, but, on the contrary, brought agriculture down to a game as simple as parchesi...
...midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives most bristlingly in little men. Mr. Wiley gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than his associates; he is often seen at smart parties, gravely watching from a portière, or dancing with a lady larger than himself...
...Plains, N. Y., Florence Damm, 21; Helen Damm, 16; Margaret Agnes Damm, 15; Jeannette and Gertrude Damm (twins), 14, the famed Damm sisters of Yonkers, N. Y., begged and obtained permission from a county judge to change their surname, testifying that it brought them ridicule and embarrassment, retarding their social life. Mrs. Damm, their mother, was proved dead; Damm, their father, was "missing." After due deliberation the Damm sisters had elected to be-and were when they left court-Gormans, one and all, in honor of a favorite uncle...
...school) : "The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, has his family established for the summer at Southampton,* L. I., the first time he or she have [sic] ever deigned to take on a fashionable resort. We are waiting to see how far his official position gets the Jardines into the social life at Southampton...
...Mussolini, boarded a wagon-lit at Rome two months ago, and was whisked toward Spain -ostensibly to visit his father-in-law, the Italian Ambassador at Madrid. The Marquis, a diplomat of talent, force, parts contrived by the aid of the Spanish news censor to escape all but purely social notice in the press of Madrid. Many a woolgathering foreign spy failed even to note the astute Marquis's occasional late suppers with Foreign Minister Yanguas of Spain, after which the Marquis occasionally remained until near dawn. Last week an explanation of these curious developments was at last forthcoming...