Word: deb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: For the less chemically-minded TIME readers, why not designate "Cohen & Corcoran"* (TIME, Sept. 12) as the "china-eggs" of the Administration, in that "they promote action without taking any part in it?" MRS. JAS. DEB. WALBOCH Hollins...
Just who would be particularly interested in this book, we can't imagine . . . unless it's the shy deb who could memorize it for conversational fodder or the aspiring Mama who would like to have her daughter escorted by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor. Some of the data has a really whimsical touch . . . the Cuban boy at Princeton with "Distinguished characteristic of mother's family-nobility" . . . the Harvard man who claims "Profession most traditional in mother's family-advertising" . . . "gun manufacturing" and "coal operator" are listed as the professions most traditional in two Yale men's families...
...Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...
Complete with patronesses, and with Jean Stowell Cullen, elected "Boston's most charming deb" by the Charlotte Cushman Club, as judge, the Winthrop Dance Committee will hold a balloon blowing contest at 2:30 o'clock today. Tickets to tonight's Dance will be given as prizes...
...they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which he has been exposed. "As T. S. Eliot said to me at lunch . . . ." If you are at all smart you will...