social register

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Laffer is a tireless talker and raconteur who, in the course of an interview, can drop enough famous names to fill a social register.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022

At times, Mosley’s testimony felt like a live reading of the social register.

From The Verge • Nov. 2, 2021

For a time, it produced a Supreme magazine, featuring the likes of Chloë Sevigny and Ryan McGinley as models, that functioned as a social register of sorts for the downtown art set.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2012

By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the adjectives in the social register were exhausted by the daily papers in describing Mrs. Festus Willard's dance.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge