Word: cotillions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make, going off to Philadelphia like she did. But I wager she was happy to be somewhere else besides the Lawrenceville-Princeton area for a change. The article only mentions one time until now that she made it out of New Jersey--to get presented at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball in New York in 1977. Why, she even went to college in Princeton, in the university they've got there, and so she must have seen quite a bit more of her folks than most young people in college ever want to. Maybe she even lived...
...Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the '40s as her dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said, "was despair...
Conservative is a relative term. "They wanted me to be a New York deb, but it was only for one night," Mimi Martin says, as she waits for her guests to arrive at the Brook Hollow Golf Club. Making her debut at a New York cotillion would have been fun but too fleeting. How is a girl supposed to come into society in just one night? In Dallas, when a girl comes out, she really comes out: two or three functions a day in her honor, six days a week, for three months. "You lose all track of the real...
Reagan came to the cotillion with an aura of invincibility from his decisive, and uncompromising, victory in paring $36 billion from the fiscal 1982 budget, which was formally approved by Congress last week. His extensive three-year tax cut program, however, enjoys far less support both in Congress and throughout the country, mainly because it threatens further to bloat the federal debt and aggravate inflation. As if to dramatize such fears, the nation's leading banks last week raised their prime lending rate to 20.5%, up 3½ percentage points in one month. Moreover, last week's report...