“Above all, wealth was no longer to be flaunted. While an ostentatious displays of money might have been de rigueur in the Golden Twenties, it was decidedly out of fashion in the desperate days of the Destitute Thirties. The splashy parties the socialite once gave and attended in the twenties in New York and Palm Beach now dwindled to a trickle and were replaced with charity teas, and fund raisers.” CharityGreat DepressionSocialitesRoaring TwentiesPalm Beach EntertainingFund RaisersGolden TwentiesNew York Entertaining Book:American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post Source: American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post