social register

Example Sentences

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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

He arrives in the city in November 1948 on opening night of the opera — then a tent pole of the New York social calendar — and stays long after the Social Register stopped being anyone’s bible.

From New York Times

This is not an uncommon encounter at Artbag, which since 1932 has repaired pocketbooks and luggage for the Social Register elites of the Upper East Side — if there are any left — as well as one superstitious lawyer who can’t part with his lucky briefcase.

From New York Times

She had been on trips with the couple — who intrigued her, she said, because they hadn’t descended from old money or Social Register families — and it was Ivana who asked her to come to the Plaza Hotel, which Donald Trump then owned.

From Washington Post