Sorry, Dan about your cold; guess should still wear a mask on airplanes, at least, in airports? Sorry too about giving up on Scrintal, although I have agreed with your concerns, and they still haven't opened a free membership, so I haven't tried it. As to your current research, I think you might be interested in [Amazon.com: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else eBook : Freeland, Chrystia: Kindle Store](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007V65OQG), particularly checking out this quote from there:
> On February 10, 1897, seven hundred members of America’s super-elite gathered at the Waldorf Hotel for a costume ball hosted by Bradley Martin, a New York lawyer, and his wife, Cornelia. The New York Times reported that the most popular costume for women was Marie Antoinette—the choice of fifty ladies. Cornelia, a plump matron with blue eyes, a bow mouth, a generous bosom, and incipient jowls, dressed as Mary Stuart, but bested them all by wearing a necklace once owned by the French queen. Bradley came as Louis XIV—the Sun King himself. John Jacob Astor was Henry of Navarre. His mother, Caroline, was one of the Marie Antoinettes, in a gown adorned with $250,000 worth of jewels. J. P. Morgan dressed as Molière; his niece, Miss Pierpont Morgan, came as Queen Louise of Prussia.
Thanks, Pat! At least I think the jackass who was coughing up a lung about four rows behind me ought to have been masked! But that's too much to hope, I suppose.
I've read Plutocrats (although I find Freeland herself quite odd) and I will definitely be dipping into it as I work through these various lists. Right now I'm working on the membership of the Knickerbocker Club in New York.
Sorry, Dan about your cold; guess should still wear a mask on airplanes, at least, in airports? Sorry too about giving up on Scrintal, although I have agreed with your concerns, and they still haven't opened a free membership, so I haven't tried it. As to your current research, I think you might be interested in [Amazon.com: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else eBook : Freeland, Chrystia: Kindle Store](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007V65OQG), particularly checking out this quote from there:
> On February 10, 1897, seven hundred members of America’s super-elite gathered at the Waldorf Hotel for a costume ball hosted by Bradley Martin, a New York lawyer, and his wife, Cornelia. The New York Times reported that the most popular costume for women was Marie Antoinette—the choice of fifty ladies. Cornelia, a plump matron with blue eyes, a bow mouth, a generous bosom, and incipient jowls, dressed as Mary Stuart, but bested them all by wearing a necklace once owned by the French queen. Bradley came as Louis XIV—the Sun King himself. John Jacob Astor was Henry of Navarre. His mother, Caroline, was one of the Marie Antoinettes, in a gown adorned with $250,000 worth of jewels. J. P. Morgan dressed as Molière; his niece, Miss Pierpont Morgan, came as Queen Louise of Prussia.
Freeland, Chrystia (2012-10-10T23:58:59.000). Plutocrats . Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Pat
Thanks, Pat! At least I think the jackass who was coughing up a lung about four rows behind me ought to have been masked! But that's too much to hope, I suppose.
I've read Plutocrats (although I find Freeland herself quite odd) and I will definitely be dipping into it as I work through these various lists. Right now I'm working on the membership of the Knickerbocker Club in New York.