Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Louis & Negro. Returned from Malta, Lady Louis Mountbatten, wife of King George's first cousin once removed, stood before Lord Chief Justice Baron Hewart and heard herself exonerated of the charge of consorting with a Negro. London's sensational tabloid weekly People had blurted: "Famous Hostess Exiled. ... A scandal which has shaken society to its very depths . . . concerns . . . one of the leading hostesses in the country, a woman highly connected and immensely rich. Her associations with a colored man became so marked that they were the talk of the West End.- One day the couple were caught...
...Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...
Hearing of Press-agent chatter that his brother-in-law's nephew Prince Ned Svasti, Princeton undergraduate, was thinking of marrying a New York dance-hall hostess, vigilant King Prajadhipok of Siam sent warning that Prince Ned Svasti must do no such thing...
...though he were in a tuxedo. Actually he was in the blackest business suit he could find, his black tie fixed securely in place by pins in the tabs of his soft collar. Only ladies of the diplomatic corps were in low-cut evening gowns, only they wore jewels. Hostess Molotov, after careful thought, had done up her light brown hair in a knot at the back of her head, wore a black gown with full-length sleeves and a narrow white collar. As the orchestra, perched on a balcony of the ballroom, struck up a fox trot...
Among a score of U. S. women who will don long gloves, satin, tri-feathered headdresses to curtsey in stiff social homage to their British Majesties at this year's May Courts: Mrs. David K. E. Bruce (daughter and hostess of Ambassador Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon...