"Debutante" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no goddess, but Circe, masquerading at the dance given in honour of the fair debutante, Summer, puts the ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... "I wear my hair parted on one side like a debutante to give me a head-start on all the knowing and subtle and wicked people I have to put up with. While they are trying to break the ice with an ingenue, I'm sizing ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... rarely had to pay for any of her own meals, except breakfast, and the economy with which she could order a breakfast was a real surprise to Mary. Mamma swam, motored, danced, walked, gossiped, played bridge, and golfed like any debutante. Mary, watching her, wondered sometimes if the father she had lost when a tiny baby, and the stepfather whose marriage to her mother, and death had followed only a few years later, were any more real to her mother than the dreams they both ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... the local commercial association for whose benefit the thing was made, the resources of the place were at the command of routine producers. Springfield dressed its best, and acted with fair skill. The heroine was a charming debutante, the hero the son of Governor Dunne. The Mine Owner's Daughter was at best a mediocre photoplay. But this type of social-artistic event, that happened once, may be attempted a hundred times, each time slowly improving. Which ...
— The Art Of The Moving Picture • Vachel Lindsay
... elaborately to Miss Messiter, and perched himself on the fence, where he might be the observed of all observers. It was curious, she thought, how his vanity walked hand in hand with so much power and force. He was really extraordinarily strong, but no debutante's self-sufficiency could have excelled his. He was so frankly an egotist that it ceased to be ...
— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine
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