Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John R. Mott, famed holder of many an honorary degree, extensive traveler, tireless international social worker, presented $4,232,467.01 worth of budgetary reports, as General Secretary of the National Council. Once he declined to be U. S. Minister to China; his acceptance of other responsibilities has been without reserve. Sonorously he entoned a list of 30 countries in which a major portion of the association's funds were spent last year...
...year-old Bishop Coadjutor of Milwaukee ("youngest bishop in the U. S." said: "The work of every form of organization in this land is staggering and faltering. We are rapidly losing the very foundation of our civilization, the home. People are living in holes in the wall; the social graces of the home have become the manners of the restaurant and the public dancing hall...
...interior of Dutch Guiana, Mr. Verrill visited Djoeka, a nation founded by escaped Ethiopian slaves at least three centuries ago. Starting from nothing they have developed their own language (called talkee-talkee, a mixture of Dutch, Spanish, French, Portuguese. English and Indian), their own culture and political and social systems...
Having just brought one social conflict to a hasty conclusion, the intrepid Harvard Lampoon launches forth upon another in its current issue in which it attacks in jocose but vigorous style the "social Freshmen" who have been attending Boston dances in alarmingly large number of late...
...attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...