Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone away from the Yard in the afternoon when the real celebrating began, were allowed to remain. Something in the sight of the couples and the sound of the band made President Quincy reverse his field and exclaim "Music! Young men! Young ladies! No dancing! Take partners for a cotillion!" And the resulting festivities were repeated annually, and improved, and finally officially named Class...
...Manhattan's twin-towered Waldorf-Astoria, 125 of the season's debutantes danced their way into society while eager sub-debs looked enviously on. The event: the nth annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, to benefit the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. The sponsor: Coty...
...chandelier-hung Cotillion Room of Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, 250 diners listened happily (some a little fuzzily) to Singer Margaret Scott. She sang three songs and two encores. Among the calla lilies and white leather banquettes, the only wartime note was a scattering of well-pressed uniforms. Then the blonde chanteuse started to sing Lili Marlene...
Mary Ellin Berlin, 17, brunette, bright-eyed daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin, made her formal debut at the Allied Flag Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (with 97 other young socialites whose parents had contributed $1,000,000 worth of bonds), brought back memories of the days when her novelist mother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, was Manhattan's brightest debutante...
Pillowed Unease. Reginald de Koven did not need the money. A graduate of Oxford and a famous cotillion leader in the salons of Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head...