Word: deb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideally, the charity ball provides a useful social ladder for the rising and able newcomer to enter Society. If the parvenus seldom wangle invitations for the intimate little dinners of the inner circle, it scarcely matters; their daughters will be asked to the right deb parties and meet the right boys. And when they are married, they can give intimate little dinners of their...
...dappled veranda in the Virgin Islands. The sea change caused by these junketings around the globe is generally favorable to Waugh's writing. In his 1926 The Making of a Matron, he needed 17 pages to dissect the not-too-complex character of a London deb; in 1942, when writing Bien Sûr, he required only six pages to tell infinitely more about a charming, pliant Lebanese girl whose good sense and good nature made war agreeable to Allied soldiers...
Ostrow and Rome are, naturally, wrong. Society Bandleader Lester Lanin noticed not long ago that the well-bred teen-agers at his deb parties had begun to ask him to play the Mr. Clean song (composer: Adman Thomas Cadden) or the Newport cigarette cha cha cha. Last week Lanin, who has made a career of knowing where the money is, announced the title of his next long-playing record: Lester Lanin on Madison Avenue, jingle tunes without words, played at our-song tempo...
...Clambake Club, and Society Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini, whose Designing Brother Oleg is now Jackie's exclusive couturier) was moved to announce: "This year, for the first time since our predecessor selected Brenda Frazier as the Queen of Glamour, we are ready to name the No. 1 Deb of the Year and the nine runners-up. Queen Deb of the Year is Jacqueline Bouvier, a regal debutante who has classic features and the daintiness of Dresden porcelain . . . Her family is strictly 'Old Guard...
...newspaperman learns that a girl with whom he has been living has casually let herself be sterilized, and that a debutante with whom he would like to play house is all too fertile. He arranges for an abortion, although he is not the deb's undoer. He is caught, stripped and tortured almost to death by the girl's brother and two accomplices, not because of the abortion plans but just for the sadistic hell of it. Eventually he marries the girl, and as the book ends, he is about to divorce her. "The evidence which the various...