Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney General Sargent, having lived alone in state at the White House* for several days, welcomed back his host and hostess from their trip to Minnesota...
...Moore is chief hostess on this occasion. Advance publicity for the International Council of Women was supplied by alarmed women of Washington, one of whom described herself...
Miss Ishbel MacDonald, who so excellently acted as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street for her father during his tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress. The periodical for which she is responsible is a weekly, The Optimist, called in a subtitle The National Organ of the Cheerful Giver. It is being run in the interest of the Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic...
Pestered by pressmen, the Duchess smiled, waved a long narrow hand, refused to talk about politics. She was in the U. S., she said, merely as "a grateful woman." The Monday Opera Club, an organization which provides titled guests for wealthy U. S. hostesses, arranged entertainments for her. On her first night in town, there was an informal dinner in her suite?the guests including Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Princess Cantacuzene-Speransky, Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Mrs. Henry H. Rogers. After dinner, the party went to the Jolson Theatre?minus Mrs. Vanderbilt, who rushed off, apologizing. Later...
...academic society at Ann Arbor must also exercise a due restraint. To produce a real, live poet at a tea is an end aimed at by every hostess, but it has a bad effect on the poet. He is rushed like a florist's fern from one glittering gathering to another, until the peace and retirement necessary to the practise of a great art becomes a myth...