Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action of the play takes place in the country home of Lady Wyngate, a short distance from London. Gathered there for the proverbial stage week-end are Rand Eldridge, noted Antarctic explorer and young lover of his hostess, his brother Hobart, an American capitalist interested in organizing Fascist youth movements, his doll-like wife, Phoebe, her daughter Joan, and her flance, Clendon Wyatt, a Rhodes scholar. Huge Willens, a German music critic, recently released from a concentration camp for having a Jewish great-grandmother, and Nikolai Jurin, a Russian emigre...
Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome...
Engaged. Lady Margaret, 24, second daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary for Air, and the Marchioness of Londonderry, No. 1 political hostess of the British Empire (TIME, Nov. 12); and her flying instructor. Alan Muntz, 35, a director of Heston Airport; without her father's approval...
...heeled, apple-cheeked Miss Ishbel MacDonald will always be an adequate housekeeper. But Lady Londonderry is the No. 1 political hostess of the Empire...
Mabel Grouitch is today the best known hostess in Jugoslavia. During the Balkan wars she toured the U. S. drumming up funds for the Serbian Red Cross. She maintained a military hospital in Belgrade, importing British nurses to staff it. During the World War she toured the U. S. again, raised $100,000 for Serbian relief. The Grouitches were intimate friends of assassinated King Alexander and of Queen Marie. Often they played bridge at the palace. When Their Majesties traveled abroad they often parked the present King Peter II and his brothers with the Grouitches. instead of leaving them...