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Sybil Thorne and the Warborn Flapper of Boston Society
The social pages once praised Sybil Thorne as Boston’s fairest debutante now she is 30 and a symbol of the postwar flapper era. Her war years, romance with John Lawrence, engagement plans, and life with Tad Thorne reveal a shift from wartime virtue to modern attitudes, independence, and scandal.
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Boston
Sybil
Sybil Thorne
Miss Middleton
Tier Father
Mrs. Thorne
Tad
Toul
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Somme
Ms. Thorne
France
Devens
John Lawrence
Yale
Lawrence
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John
Wianna
John Law
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Jim
Alfred Noyes
Paris
Humanity
Vad
Irene Castle
Prince of Wales
America
Miss Brown
Smith
Re . Ren Ae
Colonel Bixby
Bunny Faxton
Beacon Hill
Dirry
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