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Margaret began using the name " Peggy " at Washington Seminary, and the abbreviated form " Peg " at Smith College when she found an icon for herself in the mythological winged horse, " Pegasus ", that inspires poets.

Peggy made her Atlanta society debut in the 1920 winter season.

In the " gin and jazz style " of the times, she did her " flapping " in the 1920s.

At a 1921 Atlanta debutante charity ball, she performed an Apache dance.

The dance included a kiss with her male partner that shocked Atlanta " high society ".

The Apache and the Tango were scandalous dances for their elements of eroticism, the latter popularized in a 1921 silent film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, that made its lead actor, Rudolph Valentino, a sex symbol for his ability to Tango.