This man's writings referred to an especially fortunate group as "the Tong," and separated them out from the "nobs" and "swells.
This man wrote as a preface to his main book that to read it is "as rough a mental journey" as a body would undergo "in riding over a corduroy road in an old stage-coach." This man's writings referred to an especially fortunate group as "the Tong," and separated them out from the "nobs" and "swells." This man, who frequently referred to his patroness as "the Mystic Rose," fell into disgrace after discussing his childhood in Savannah in his memoir Society As I Have Found It. This leader of a group of twenty-five wealthy men called the Patriarchs made his most lasting observation while shortening a list of invitees to a party held by the (*) socialite Caroline Schermerhorn Astor at her Newport summer home. For 10 points, name this self-appointed "society expert", a man who tried to keep the Vanderbilts off a list of "the Four Hundred" people who really mattered in postbellum New York City social life.
This man wrote as a preface to his main book that to read it is "as rough a mental journey" as a body would undergo "in riding over a corduroy road in an old stage-coach."
(Samuel) Ward McAllister