Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotillion "was the main event of the ball, beginning at midnight, after supper. Your partner's first act was to secure a pair of chairs by tying them together with a handkerchief. These were all placed around the ballroom in front of the benches reserved for chaperons and unlucky girls who had no partners. The leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through...
...peril of the cotillion was that wallflowers could not be camouflaged. Says the daughter of Julia Ward Howe: "Today no woman will go to a ball without an escort. These moderns play safe. ... I must say I think we were rather more sporting in our attitude...
Reap the Wild Wind (Paramount) has all that money (about $1,800,000 worth) can buy: horrendous hurricanes, sailing ships to buck them; a monster squid, brave men and bold to tackle it; a dressmaker's dream of a cotillion; flora & fauna and seascapes galore; vermilion cockatoos and great red cheeses; red-coated slaves and monkeys in the rigging; rooms, houses, towns, cities, dripping with elegance and Technicolor...
Princeton's orange and black is taking on a very reddish tinge with the undergraduate dance committee naming their big dance tomorrow night the "Crimson Cotillion...
...Sophomores, Benjamin C. Bradlee, George R. Clay, Peter Dunham, Justin J. Haley, F. Barton Harvey, and H. W. Ford King conceived the idea of the Cotillion and would have had to bear the cost of the affair if it had not been financially productive...