Word: debs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...would be no difficulty. We would picture the typical Cantab as infected with the bored indifference synonymous with the name of his university, afflicted with the "yahd" accent, his shoulders stooped under the weight of centuries of tradition. We should picture him as a dilletante intellectual addicted to Boston deb parties, who conceives of Cambridge as the hub of the collegiate universe. And then we'd all yell Reinhardt...
...Nassau with her daughter, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Cafe Society's No. 1 glamor girl, Mrs. Frederic Watriss declared: "Certainly Brenda, likes being popular. So do I. We all love it. There is no problem to being the mother of a popular deb. It is the mothers of the others I'm sorry for. It must be awful to be the mother of a flop...
...that danced seraphically with their eyes closed, in the middle of the room obviously with their favorite partner, and those dancing around the edge of the ballroom which is the shop-window of the stag line, so they chatted and smiled vivaciously at the surplus males. Yes, the American deb is obviously out to please, unlike the English deb. . . . Precisely the same plump little figures you see in Mayfair, their hair is neither as well cared for nor as well dressed, their complexions are often poor and their clothes also are dowdy by comparison...
...would not suffer that je should poner my mano above ses jupes which je endeavoured," he wrote of one modest soul. But although Librarian Turner transcribed such passages, Pepys's secrets are still reasonably safe 270 years after the night Mrs. Pepys caught him with the charming Deb Willet. Talking things over with publishers and college authorities, Librarian Turner decided that the new edition too should be expurgated...