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...that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics, and he will embrace all these concepts--he will picture the typical Harvard student as a wealthy young snob, driving madly to a deb party in his sixteen cylinder-convertible, and distributing communist literature as he goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHIEFLY IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

...green side out. On the red side was lettered, "Stop. Do not propose." On the green, "Go ahead, you may propose." After no end of gay squealing and innocent chaff to the discreet rhythms of Jack Harris, the party wound up at 3:30 a.m.-and many a drowsy deb was up and in uniform at 7 a.m. to get on with her war work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Instead of Feathers | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...announcement came hot on the heels of a report by Walter Herrick, Eileen's father and former New York Park Commissioner, to the missing persons bureau that his post-deb daughter had "disappeared...

Author: By (the UNITED Press), | Title: Over the Wire | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lunatic at Large | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

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