Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread involved dancing if has involved dancing since the days of the cotillion)." the Bulletin argues, us tongue in its cheek, "and more people would come to a dance if you called it by its spade name. All of which is precious argument. No one ever went to a spread expecting a Punch and Judy show...
Admittedly weakened by the Price-Tiger cotillion the night before, the Prince editors were unable to gain from scrimmage or by any other means, liquid or solid. The CRIMSON's attack was featured by the stellar broken-field ballet of Light-Horse Harry Hammond, who caused a sensation when he appeared on Brokaw Field in full football togs...
Although I have found TIME heretofore a very exacting magazine, I noticed an error in the Feb. 14 issue. The party, or "Mock Bachelors' Cotillion" as you termed it [which young Blaine Fairless, son of U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, helped organize], actually had a receiving line of young men [not young women] holding bouquets of vegetables. Mr. Fairless was one of this number...
...Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes by holding a mock Bachelors' Cotillion at which the girls had to carry bouquets of vegetables...
...many things which would not be to their worldly or spiritual advantage. But at Harvard scandals are unknown; the undergraduates, if not always wise as serpents, are at all events harmless as doves. They pay their addresses to young ladies in the most orthodox manner, take them out to cotillion parties, or 'Germans', as they are called, and bring them home at midnight in the dark. But no harm over comes of it, except sometimes premature espousals...