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FROM "The Last Resorts", by Cleveland Amory, New York, 1952:

Today’s resort old-timers believe firmly a curious theory of resorts. This theory is that, generally speaking, the following groups have come to the social resorts in this order:

FIRST: Artists and writers in search of good scenery and solitude.

SECOND: Professors and clergymen and other so-called ‘solid people’ with long vacations, in search of the simple life.

THIRD: "Nice millionaires" in search of a good place for their children to lead the simple life (as lived by the "solid people").

FOURTH: "Naughty millionaires", who wished to associate socially with the "nice millionaires", but who built million-dollar cottages and million-dollar clubs, dressed up for dinner, gave balls and utterly destroyed the simple life.

FIFTH: Trouble.

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