Terms and Tastes Peculiar to This Season's Young After considerable philological research, state the editors of "Vogue," (American edition) we present herewith our Débutantes Dictionary, revised and abridged as of the year 1937-38. We discovered, among other things, that in Chicago the word "plenty" is now prefixed to all adjective, while in New York and Boston "frankly" and "definitely" are still holding their own; that Philadelphia debs, during lulls in the conversation, are apt, inexplicably, to remark "Take a letter"; that dé- butante drinking is more and more considered "tacky"—ie, in questionable taste; that, also in Chicago, drink is known as "powder"; that "pickle-puss" is a term of endearment, And that "Thank-you," launched by that international glamour boy Groucho Marx, is making its long-deferred Last Stand,
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