Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dolly Madison, famed White House hostess and brunette wife of the fourth President of the U.S., blonde Ginger makes no effort to recreate the "fine, portly, buxom dame" described by Washington...
Ready for the Republican renaissance was a Washington hostess who had been there all along: Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The onetime "Princess Alice," who came out at the White House, was married to Speaker Nicholas Longworth, and dominated capital society when it was mostly Republican, lived alone now at 62 in her mansion that "smells of 1910." But she had been no recluse. Her "gatherings" had continued; only the publicity had failed. So her plans, said she, were simply "to continue with business as usual, pleasure as usual-whatever you want to call...
...Bites, Say Nothing. But most etiquettists were deadly serious in wising-up social aspirants: "[Do not] seize ladies by the waist." Never let your hostess "know that you have found . . . insects in your bed." If you "throw down a waiter loaded with splendid cut glass . . . you should not. .. appear the least mortified...
Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
Bill Murphy got his connections (plus ulcers) in the radio business, then in the Navy. Mrs. Murphy got hers as a travel expert, then as a professional gift-shopper, hostess, and party-arranger...