Word: smilax
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...bright young star on the social scene,? we learn from Stephen Miller?s admirable obit in the Sun. ?Adams?s debut [in 1941] was a stunning affair at the St. Regis Roof, reported in full in the Times, with the debutante receiving guests ?before a bower of southern smilax and woodwardia ferns,? and wearing an off-the-shoulder sky-blue gown ?trimmed with small ostrich feathers tipped with silver.?? The 16-year-old was groomed to stardom, and had the quality...
...Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was hung with white-dipped smilax, pink lights winking among the leaves, for the 19th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. On stage, young ladies dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall tapers, curtsied, and made their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years...
Because there have been "no debuts or social functions to speak of" for a year now, plump, persimmonish, seventyish Juliana Cutting retired last week as Manhattan's No. 1 social arranger and secretary. For nearly 20 years she has been ordering smilax, keeping the wrong people out of parties...
...Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria (Manhattan) was dressed one night this week with smilax, gladiolas, palms and fine napery, as it is almost nightly for conventions of furriers, bankers and the like. Guests were a national collection of Republicans assembled by the New York political club of that name to pay off its debts (at $25 a plate) and perform an act (hooked up to the nation by radio for two hours) called "Victory Through Unity." All the newly-elected Republican Governors and Senators were to have taken part. Other Lincoln's Birthday engagements at home detained several...
...never did know a thing about flowers. Occasionally we've had to send them to girls, and then they've impressed our bank book a good deal. Yet even the Pierre Roof and somebody's debutante daughter tastefully decorated in silver smilax, silver fox, and perhaps a corsage of spinach have left us cold as we eyed down the page, up of the night's festivities. Botany didn't mean much then...