Thereafter, she launched a second career as the popular society columnist for the Laredo Morning Times.
In 1990 she also worked as an occasional society columnist for the London Sunday Times, writing about prestigious social events she attended on assignment.
"Wonderful beyond wonderful" is how Aileen Mehle, the society columnist, described it.
In the 1930s, Zerbe was the partner of the society columnist and writer Lucius Beebe.
"This wasn't any act of generosity," says a leading society columnist, Francisco Umbral.
Her father was a celebrity, a debonair society columnist with a car and driver.
In it, a society columnist named Lionel Pantaloon reports some scandalous gossip about several prominent citizens.
Six years after the marriage, the narrator of the story, a society columnist, finds himself seated next to the imperious Lady Turton at a dinner party.
He could not afford to be brusque with the society columnists.
She worked briefly as a society columnist for La Galoise, a Paris newspaper, in the 1890s.