High society

Name: High society
Author: Frank Crowninshield Dorothy Parker George S. Chappell

by Frank Crowninshield Dorothy Parker George S. Chappell

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AN INVITATION TO THE READER
The Social Merry-Go-Round
HIGH SOCIETY Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality
Fish, And Her Work
THE HORSE SHOW
THE RESTAURANTS
The Opening of the Social Season How the Members of the Beau Monde Will Spend What Is Left of Their War-time Incomes
THE ART SHOWS
THE FASHION FÊTES
The Opera, in Full Blast Showing That Things Are Sounding Much as Usual At the Opera This Year
AN OPERATIC DUET
HOME, SWEET HOME
HEARTS AND FLOWERS
THE SPELL OF MUSIC
LES TROIS CORYPHÉES
THE EIGHT HOUR NIGHT
Keeping on With the Dance You Will Certainly Be Considered a Social Pariah if You Don’t Dance the Night Out
MORNING—IN THE PARK
A LEGEND OF RUSSIA
THE SOCIETY DERVISHES
THE DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS
Getting On, in Smart Society If, at First, You Don’t Succeed, Dine ’em and Dine ’em Again
IN THE INTELLECTUAL SET
HEARTS AND DIAMONDS
THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE
THE ATTACK ON BOHEMIA
SUCCESS AT LAST
HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
Hints on Honeymoons—For the Very Rich How to Make a Smart Honeymoon—Comparatively Speaking—Agreeable
PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES
THE COTTAGE OF DREAMS
ALONE, AT LAST
WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE
THE EXPRESS TO EDEN
AMOUR DE VOYAGE
The Poets That Bloom in the Spring A Popular New Pastime in Smart Society—the Matinée Poétique
The Art Exhibition: Opening Day After All, There Is Nothing Like Modern Sculpture to Stimulate the Imagination
A Week-End With the Recently Rich Showing That a Profiteer Is Without Honour in His Own Country
OUR HERO
A HORRIBLE MOMENT
THE COMMITTEE OF WELCOME
THE EROTIC MOTIVE
THE GRAND TOUR
ON WITH THE DANCE
THE BITTER END
THE DANCE OF THE GHOULS
LONG MAY HE PERMANENTLY WAVE
NO COAXING
On the Trail of the Concert Lovers “Among Those Present”—at All the Smart Concert Halls
THE INFANT PRODIGY
THE MALE DUET
AMONG THOSE PRESENT
The Trials of the Newly Poor A Heart-rending Picture of Life as it is Lived Behind Aristocratic Doors
THE IDEALS OF ALGY
BACK TO NATURE
THE PEER AND THE PERI
DE PROFUNDIS
SUCCESS AT LAST
MILLY, THE LIGHT-WEIGHT
The Prize Fight Finally Gets into Society The Smartest Diversion Is Now the Science of the Swat and the Slam
MILADY, THE WELTER-WEIGHT
THE LADY BANTAM
A CHARMING EVENING IN HIGH SOCIETY
THE CARELESS CRITIC
Dreadful Moments in Society Embarrassing Little Episodes Which Might Happen to Even the Best of Us
ART FOR THE ARTLESS
SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE
THE GREAT UNKNOWN
POVERTY AND RICHES
ENTER THE HERO
On the Trail of a Wife Détours on the Road to Matrimony
THE SECOND ENTRY
EXHIBIT C
THE ORDEAL BY AIR
THE SAD CASE OF PEGGY
ANOTHER BLOW
THE BITTER END
THE DAWN OF A NEW LIFE
THE ENDLESS CHAIN
Divorce: A Great Indoor Sport It is Beginning to Rank First Among Our Fashionable and Popular Pastimes
THE FLAW
THE DIVORCE SPECIAL
OLD HOME WEEK
BACK TO THE START AGAIN
Wild Bores We Have Met Question! Who—in Society—Is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent. Bore?
BEHIND THE “TIMES”
THE MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY BORE
THE BABY BORE
THE BOASTFUL BORE
THE DIETETIC BORE
THE THEATRE BORE
THE AWAKENING TO SPRING
HAIL, THE CONQUERING HERO!
THE PROFESSIONAL SIREN
The Throes of First Love, in Society A Few Fashionable Little Variations on the Oldest Theme in the World
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
THE DANGEROUS DÉBUTANTE
FIRST LOVE—AND THE NOBLE THEATRICAL GOD
GARDENING
A Calendar of Popular Outdoor Sports As Practised Among Persons of Breeding and Quality
LAWN TENNIS
INDOOR GOLF
SUMMER BOATING
CROQUET
The Seven Deadly Temperaments As Frequently Met With in the Ladies
THE FELINE TEMPERAMENT
THE MATERNAL TEMPERAMENT
THE SOULFUL TEMPERAMENT
THE ROMANTIC TEMPERAMENT
THE NAGGING TEMPERAMENT
THE PRACTICAL TEMPERAMENT
THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT
Six Brands of Week-End Hostesses It’s a Lusty Life, if You Don’t Week-End
THE UNSEEN HOSTESS
THE BISHOP’S MOVE
THE MUSICAL HOSTESS
THE WELL MEANING HOSTESS
THE VANISHING HOSTESS
PALM SUNDAY
After-the-War Servant Problems How the Great Conflict ended the Golden Days of Service in the Houses of the Elect
GILDING THE LILY
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE
WHY BOYS LEAVE HOME
TIGER! TIGER!
THE ULTIMATE STRAW
CASUALS OF THE AVENUE
Advice to the Lovelorn What Every Girl Should Know, Before Choosing a Husband
LE PREMIER PAS
BEWARE THE SOCIETY FAVORITE
BEWARE THE MODERNIST POET
THE FUTURIST—WITH A PAST
WITH THIS RING
THE RIGHT MAN—AT LAST
HERE ARE YOUR JEWELS
The Open Season for Strikes If You Don’t See What You Want, Strike for It
THE HUSBANDS’ REVOLT
WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING?
THE WIVES’ UNION
THE WAYS OF A MAID
THE ULTIMATE HORROR
THE PORTRAITS OF OLD
The Art of Fashionable Portraiture You Can’t Quite Be “It,” Without the Aid of a Modernist Artist
GO TO THE AUNT
THE OVAL-SHAPED LADY
THE HUMAN EGG
THE NUDE SOUL
Social Superstitions With Very Special Obeisances to Cupid
THE SHEEP—AND THE GOAT
THE SUIT AND THE SUITOR
SALT AND BATTERY
THE WORST IS YET TO COME
THE CROIX DE COUTEAUX
DANGEROUS DIANA
Who’s Who—in the Audience Showing That the Smart Playgoer, Not the Smart Play, Is Really the Thing
IT’S ALL IN THE LINES
CINEMA LOVERS
CAN YOU GUESS WHO’S ON THE STAGE?
DOUBLE ENTENDRES
FOR THE CHILDREN’S SAKE
CAN YOU GUESS WHO’S ON THE STAGE, NOW?
SPEEDING THE PARTING GUESTS
The Horrors of the Week End From the Tortured Hostess’s Point of View
WHY DINNER WAS LATE
VISITORS-IN-LAW
THE LADY BURGLAR
THE HOOT-OWL
RUDENESS REPAID
When Marriage Is a Failure—Cherchez la Femme Have You a Little Failure In Your Home?
A CATALOGUE OF WIVES
THE LAPLAND MODEL
THE SECRET SOLVED
THE SENSITIVE WIFE
THE “DRESSY” WIFE
THE HUMAN BANK ACCOUNT
Opening of the Opera Season
THE POOR, INNOCENT VICTIM
Blighters at Bridge A Terrifying Triumvirate of Familiar Lady Auction Pests
THE BLIGHTER, PAR EXCELLENCE
THE HOODOO-ED DOWAGER
A Way to Succeed on the Stage A Lady, Once a Creature of Fashion, and Now a Famous Actress, Tells of Her Success
CONSIDER YOUR AUDIENCE
REMEMBER YOUR MOTHER
TRY TO BE KIND TO THE CRITICS
THE BEAUTY OF MODERATION
Sports for the Summer The Increasingly Feminine Tone of Outdoor Diversions
MOTORING
CANOODLING
SLAVING
DANCING
SEA BATHING HAS BECOME THE KING OF ALL THE DRY SPORTS
The Strategy and Finesse of Proposing Advance Leaves from 1921 Handbook of Courtship
THE PROPOSAL BY LETTER
THE PROPOSAL TERPSICHOREAN
THE PROPOSAL, A LA PASHA
THE PROPOSAL BY TELEPHONE
THE PROPOSAL BY PHONOGRAPH
LANDED AT LAST
THE NEWLY RICH ELEMENT
FOND MEMORIES
Palmy Days at the Seaside Sights at the Bathing Resorts When the Season for Salt Water is Declared On
ON THE SIDE LINES
THE CINEMA VAMP
THE TENNIS HOUNDS
MIXED FOURSOMES
THE RECENTLY RICH
THE LURE OF THE STAGE
SEASIDE PANORAMA
GLIMPSES WITHIN
An Interview with A Great Dancer Privileged Peeps into the Soul of Mlle. Angeline, of Paris
BARKING BLOSSOMS
ALONG THE BEACH
THE MOTHER INSTINCT
BUCOLIC BEAUTIES
THE FLORAL TRIBUTE
ANGELINE’S ADORABLE ADIEU
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