Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...
...Turn your head and count ten," said Washington Socialite Mrs. Augusta Trimble Fletcher, as she greeted a guest in her library. The guest obeyed, then whirled at the sound of a shot. His hostess had killed herself...
...walked up to the best-looking dame in the bunch & said 'howdy?' Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time ... I inspected the gardens with another 'chawmer' & ended up by jollying the hostess herself all by her lonesome for ten minutes while a uniformed Lord stood by & never got in anything except an occasional...
...Side Issues." Abruptly, Accuser Hughes attacked Senator Brewster because of a story which the Senator had given to the press-that a T.W.A. hostess had refused to travel alone in a plane with Hughes. The aviator produced an affidavit from Hostess Harriet Applewick. She called the Senator's remarks "ridiculous...
...Army Hatred." The next day, Senator Brewster told newsmen that he regretted having brought up the story about the airline hostess. Then he quit the capital and flew off (in an American Airlines plane) to a vacation in Maine. But Howard Hughes was not through. He turned his guns on the Army. He and Noah Dietrich contended that it was "personal dislike" of Hughes by Major General Oliver Echols (wartime chief of Air Forces procurement) which blocked Hughes's efforts to speed building of the 200-ton "Hercules" and the XF-11 camera plane. And it was "Army hatred...