Word: cartier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a D. A. R. reception by President and Mrs. Coolidge. There were speeches by Belgian Ambassador Baron de Cartier, whose wife is reputed to be the best dressed woman in Washington; and by Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, whose wife is an able cook. At intervals people played to the Daughters on organs, bugles, harps, xylophones. Young ladies in white frocks functioned as pages, had their pictures taken with famed Daughters. Jealous young ladies not invited to usher went about Washington calling the lucky ones "D. A. R.-lings," "patriettes...
...able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able hostess; Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, who is eyes and inspiration for her blind husband; Baroness de Cartier, doyenne of the Diplomatic Corps and most beautifully gowned woman in Washington...
...Hail to the Chief"; President and Mrs. Coolidge descended the state stairway followed by Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, and the Cabinet members with their ladies. In the Blue Room doors were flung open and in marched the diplomats of 53 nations, wearing court uniforms, headed by Baron de Cartier, Belgian Ambassador, dean of the diplomatic corps. It was the first state reception of the season at the White House...
...tiny gold locket was presented to Mrs. Coolidge by Pierre Cartier and Jacques Worth, jewel potentates of France...
...educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...