Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compare a prosperous bond-salesman of the American species with an Arunta tribesman is in the sociological sense by no means derogatory. Totems are as fundamental as anything in the curious network of superstitions, contracts, and shibboleths which arise from the social intermingling of individuals. The totem in both cases rests on a fairly common basis, a kindred, actual or supposed, and its manifestations its parades and its war cries, are equally noble or ridiculous...
...little by little, from definition to definition, sifting each case down to a little question of legal right and answering "yes" or "no," the Court goes on season by season developing the social institutions of the country...
...dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant event** in the social history of the city. He was the son of a Vermont carpenter of French descent; he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped him to start a place of his own. It is said that...
...Howe, Sect. 19 Memorial Hall Mr. Pfund, Sect. 20 New Lect. Hall Mr. Provine, Sects. 4, 15 New Lect. Hall Dr. Silz, Sects. 8, 17 Emerson D Dr. Stevens, Sects. 3, 9 Emerson D Dr. von Oy, Sect. 24 Emerson D German C Emerson J Philosophy 12b Emerson J Social Ethics 3 Emerson J New Lect. Hall
...does not know whether to assign credit to universal agitation or a series of remarkable leaders. So one cannot do better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with...