Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impression of homely words exquisitely arranged. He is proud of his family?his daughters are both accomplished? in fact, one of them is to appear in Walter Hamp den's company at the National theatre, Manhattan. His wife, a sister of Lorado Taft, the sculpter, is a gracious hostess and a beautiful woman. She is the heroine of A Daughter of the Middle Border and the frankness and yet good taste with which Mr. Garland describes his life with her is one of the high points in literary autobiography...
Grace Goodhue Coolidge, wife of the President, is universally well spoken of and liked. She is a college woman (University of Vermont), as was Mrs. Cleveland before her. As the wife of the Vice President her entertaining was not extensive or magnificent, but she was known as a gracious hostess. She made an exceptional number of friends, and has a remarkable memory for faces and names...
...Stanley Baldwin, charming and intelligent, hostess to political Britain...
Next week the General Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its National Convention in Atlanta. The Atlanta Woman's Club will act as hostess in its new $250,000 club house. The meetings will be devoted to business, " but social events will be sandwiched...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...