Word: cotillion
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...Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes by holding a mock Bachelors' Cotillion at which the girls had to carry bouquets of vegetables...
...many things which would not be to their worldly or spiritual advantage. But at Harvard scandals are unknown; the undergraduates, if not always wise as serpents, are at all events harmless as doves. They pay their addresses to young ladies in the most orthodox manner, take them out to cotillion parties, or 'Germans', as they are called, and bring them home at midnight in the dark. But no harm over comes of it, except sometimes premature espousals...
...pressed his little gold key. On flashed green lights at each end of the bridge and a phalanx of cars charged up the ramps. In the first twelve hours, 70,000 cars drove across. Toll: 65?. That night the Navy contributed to California's debutante party a searchlight cotillion...
...expo sure of the thief who stole a fortune in pearls and banknotes from Lady Cleone's grandfather is accomplished by some highly literate dramaturgy by Clemence Dane, some handsome snuff-taking by Fairbanks Jr., some capital period studies, including: 1) a bare-knuckle prizefight; 2) a Court cotillion; 3) a jailbreak; 4) a presentation of living tableaux from the paintings of the Royal Academy...
...Miss Devereux has been known to devote four columns to a wedding or ball, 16 columns to a day's social news. To her, debutantes are "rosebuds," a dining table is "the central mahogany," a woman's dress is a "toilet." Her copy is sacred. When a cotillion was being formed four years ago no editor touched pencil to the information that it was an organization of "young celibrates" for whom tailcoats would be "de Rigeuer." Some society editors in other cities are as remarkable if not so powerful as Marion Devereux: Boston had until last winter...