Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
Little different from conventional debuts whose object is to introduce young girls to polite society and eventually to the career of marriage was the debut held last week at the White House (see above). But very different in principle from such debuts are other debuts-a handful of which now take place every year-which provide a glittering preview of young women who are launching on a career somewhat like that of a cinema star, the career of Glamor Girl. Outstanding debut of last week in Manhattan was a party that had all the earmarks of a champagne christening...
...wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already had one debut in Boston...
...command performance." But the President attended. Niece Eleanor, pretty, lively, 18, was to have worn a dress sent her by King George of Greece whom she met while visiting the Minister Lincoln MacVeaghs in Athens. It didn't arrive so she made out very well in billowing white organdy...
Except for the White House military aides-a score of handsome bachelors who gave a dinner party beforehand on the Presidential yacht Potomac, and were each instructed to squire a girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over...