Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By the late Charles Curtis, one-time (1929-33) Vice President of the U. S.; to Sister Dolly Curtis Gann, his official hostess...
...jockey and grandson of a Kaw Indian with a vast new selfimportance. He presided over the Senate with imposing dignity, began making dull speeches on all public occasions. Punctilious in his role as the Capital's No. 1 diner-out, he allowed his exuberant half-sister and official hostess to make a finish fight of her war for social precedence with the Speaker's lady, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Call me Mr. Vice President," he commanded his oldtime friends...
...International Paper Co. plucked Archibald Robertson Graustein from a big Boston law firm, made him head of the world's biggest paper company at 39. Five years later President Graustein found love in the person of one Claire Patton, who was earning a modest living as a hostess in Manhattan's democratic Roseland Dance Hall. He whisked her off to Texas, married her. By this time Mr. Graustein's company was called International Paper & Power, and it was more a power company than paper company. Last week, having sloughed off most of its power business...
...speeders police arrested big, burly President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers on a charge of driving 42 m. p. h. in a 30-mile zone. Laborman Lewis posted a $10 bond, left town. On Pennsylvania Avenue a patrolman stopped Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, famed Washington hostess and member of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Association, charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side of a bridge...
...stand him in good stead when his diplomatic career began again. Nowadays Mrs. Phillips is rated rather snobbish, but obstinate would be a better word for it. She refuses to wear glasses although she is so shortsighted that she cannot recognize her best friends across a room. As his hostess in Washington when Woodrow Wilson called him back to the State Department just before the War, as his hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium (1924) and at Ottawa when he was appointed first...