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In 1955, New York City banned SROs, which kicked off the rigid encoding of the kind of lifestyle that we believe to be morally and socially correct into our built environment.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2018

“It is, after all, the politically and socially correct thing to do, and it’s something that society demands of us.”

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2016

It seems somehow typical of Cesar Ritz's enterprise that even the earth upon which his pompous monuments are raised should be hallowed by socially correct ownership.

From Time Magazine Archive

Christanity first became the socially correct religion by the fiat of Emperor Constantine the Great, then living.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cards do not carry with them a license to be unfair or rude, yet, at the Bridge table, many socially correct people are both.

From Bridge; its Principles and Rules of Play with Illustrative Hands and the Club Code of Bridge Laws by Elwell, J.B. (Joseph Bowne)




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