How to Use social secretary in a Sentence

social secretary

noun
  • Career ambition: To serve as the social secretary of the White House.
    Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The office is comparable in many ways to that of the White House social secretary.
    Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • Belle Hagner was the first social secretary to implement the role as a real, salaried job.
    Marisa Meltzer, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Averting last-minute crises is part of the unwritten job description of a social secretary, one of the most crucial but unsung roles in any White House.
    New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Plus, in 1960, she was sued for libel and defamation by her former social secretary, Yvonne MacPherson.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2022
  • World-class catering and staff are at your fingertips, along with the White House's own florist and social secretary to handle all the decorating and inviting.
    Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • Diplomats and social secretaries at other embassies were left wondering how the country had pulled in so many Trump V.I.P.s.
    Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Carlos Elizondo, too, will reprise his role as White House social secretary.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2020
  • But Desiree Rogers, the Obamas’ first social secretary, sought to expel pervasive nineties frump.
    Susannah Jacob, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But for all the anachronism of viewing a first lady as a spouse and social secretary in the year of #MeToo, the discussion of her refinement, thoughtfulness and grace served as a counterpoint to her husband.
    David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The Brooklyn Museum has one owned by Babe Paley that was donated by her social secretary!
    Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Franklin’s affair with Eleanor’s social secretary, Lucy Mercer.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2022
  • White House social secretary Rickie Niceta has also resigned, two sources said.
    CBS News, 7 Jan. 2021
  • As Floral Headpiece, his social secretary, decried throughout the interlude, this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Infant Mystics.
    The Masked Observer, AL.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • At one point, the Observer found his social secretary, Floral Headpiece, rummaging thorough a broom closet near the foyer.
    al, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Deesha Dyer, the White House social secretary for the Obama administration, explained the decorating process in a 2016 blog post.
    Temi Adebowale, Country Living, 6 Aug. 2018
  • Russell highlights a pivotal moment in 1918 when Roosevelt found her husband’s love letters to her onetime social secretary, Lucy Mercer, and confirmed their affair.
    Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Some topiary trees took a little longer to arrive, said social secretary Carlos Elizondo.
    Time, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Garcetti, in his own deposition, denied making such a statement to Bernard, a former social secretary for President Obama.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
  • The Philadelphia native began her White House tenure as a 31-year-old intern attending community college who rose through the ranks to become social secretary.
    Donna Owens, Essence, 30 Mar. 2021
  • In September 1918, Eleanor, unpacking his luggage after a trip abroad, discovered love letters from Lucy Mercer, her social secretary.
    David Nasaw, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Wedding and event planners were generally called social secretaries.
    Alix Strauss, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Bernard formerly served as social secretary and special assistant to President Obama.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • Floral Headpiece, the Masked Observer's social secretary especially enjoyed his glimmering knee-high boots.
    The Masked Observer, AL.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Since then, she's added a social secretary, a communications director, a policy director and a communications coordinator, among others, bringing the East Wing staff total to 10, still a relatively lean office.
    Betsy Klein, CNN, 21 Apr. 2018

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