Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother Advocate's sixty-fifth birthday provides an occasion for declaring a verbal truce, however. Decked out in her new white party dress, with only a brightened green frill as a vestige of the by-gone years, she has made her dowager debut. Whereas Pegasus, her ancestral sire, has been rejuvenated by Spring, she has had a completely modern face-lifting. But the old lady was clever enough to realize the futility of mere external dressing up. A blood transfusion was made and in her haughty blue veins there now flow some new corpuscles--some with a crimson tinge...
...referred to. The interest is not in the fact that rattlesnake was the piece de resistance at a dinner enjoyed by a party of Legion Hairs'' but that this rattlesnake was put up preserved in commercial tin cans. As one of the articles states, this is the debut of a new industry for the utilization of one of Florida's unique natural resources. The writer believes that he is the pioneer in this phase of the canning industry. One thing more, not covered in the articles -most of the guests at the Tampa dinner passed their plates...
Settling down to a quiet routine after its celebrated debut last February (TIME, Feb. 23), Vatican City's broadcasting station HVJ put Pope Pius XI on the air last week for the second time. Europe (not the U. S.) heard scholarly lectures by members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Rev. Father Giuseppe Gianfranceschi, director of the station, on the technical aspect of the Vatican's radio waves; Professor Anile on the origin of languages; Professor Navas on Oriental insects. Then said His Holiness...
...first wife, Lillian N. McCready. Famed is Daughter Doris Duke (born 1912) who will become a trustee when she reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed to awaken to melodious chimes, bathe in water from an illuminated fountain, travel with a body-guard). Like many another rich Southern woman, Mrs. Duke is conservative, quiet, charming. Her fellow trustees regard her as a fine figure of a woman, find her (unlike...
Rughy Makes its Debut...