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The Deb's Dictionary: The Essential A to Z Guide for the Aspiring Debutante
Oliver Herford
#UB5062
Hardcover, 109 pages; 2007 (1931)
$11.95
MALICE The spice of gossip.
MANIA A fad with fangs.
MANUSCRIPT Something that is submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
MODESTY The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Don't be put off by its title: Oliver Herford's compendium of tongue-in-cheeky definitions is not at all limited to social butterflies. Au contraire, my dear. Social skeptics are more likely to be appreciative of its literate cynicism than those who actually care about long white gloves and sheaves of red roses. This clever, quirky book made its own debut in 1931, but it's almost as appropriate—and perhaps even more entertaining—for readers today as it was seventy-plus years ago. Herford's original illustrations add a dollop of vintage charm.
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