social register

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And the Joe Coffee on the corner of Pineapple and Hicks streets is where Georgiana, the youngest daughter of “Pineapple Street”’s adamantly Social Register Stanton family, utters the immortal line, “Oh no, I left my Cartier tennis bracelet in Lena’s BMW and she’s leaving for her grandmother’s house in Southampton” as she is fatefully spotted by the reluctant heir to a zillion-dollar defense fortune.

From New York Times

Easy’s search will take him to an ad hoc veterans’ bar, a sex club, an insurance conglomerate, gangster’s lair, construction company and homes not on the L.A. social register.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Hastings said that his mother was a Boston debutante from a Social Register family who married a lawyer who later worked in the Nixon administration.

From New York Times

"There are 2,000 people on social register waiting for housing in Gwynedd, then you have another 1,000 who have found a way of paying no tax at all. It's scandalous that this is allowed to happen."

From BBC

Americans for Prosperity quickly evolved into the flagship of the family’s political operation as the brothers cemented their reputation as the keepers of the conservative social register.

From Washington Post