Word: deb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harps, a teen-age Manhattan slum gang, was as rigidly hierarchical as in a primitive tribe. When the president wanted to issue a command, his personal stooge called the gang to attention by shouting "Time! Time!" If a fellow had his initials scratched on the arm of a deb (a girl member), no other Harp was allowed to touch her until she formally declared that she was through with him. Modeling themselves after such movie heroes as Alan Ladd ("The way he beats his women! He stomps them"), the Harps treated their debs with elaborately casual brutality...
London Without Railings. I Leap Over the Wall, a sort of deb's diary of Monica's coming out, is a bubbly, effervescent report that is certain to become a lending-library smash. With a smile she recalls the habit she wore for 28 years. It began next the skin with "a nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped...