| The belle of the ball gown, Mary Vidler, came up with the idea for a ball for older debs. |
| The debs danced through the night away and went on to breakfast at 6 am. |
| Lilian, tall and slim and intellectual, seemed ill at ease among the debs and toffs. |
| Debs won 897,000 votes on election day, 6 percent of the ballot before women had the right to vote. |
| And current manfiction certainly gives women a better deal than they got in the pulps of yesteryear, when most were presented as barracuda debs in frilly negligees. |
| As for her daughter, she was a bluestocking, one of only four of the class of 1958 debs who won a place at university. |
