Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call Me Madam is "a story of the past-1951. It takes place in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg-the other, the United States of America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There...
...graduate of Princeton, Whitney Darrow, Jr, has been contributing cartoons to the New Yorker for almost 20 years. His drawings have been collected in two books, "You're Sitting on My Eyelashes" and "Please Pass the Hostess." This is the eighth of the series on Harvard's next president...
...Washington, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was hostess at her first official luncheon. The guests: wives of Cabinet members (except Mrs. John Foster Dulles, who was ill) and ladies of rank in the new Administration. After lunch in the State dining room (brilliant with yellow roses, white snapdragons, blue irises and that old standby from the botanical gardens, Baker fern) with music by the Marine band's orchestra, the ladies lined up for a smiling record of the party...
...eminence, however, Dolly's social status became a hot issue. Her opponents argued that, in the absence of President Hoover's wife, top rank at the dinner table belonged to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth and daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. Official hostess or not, they declared, Dolly was only the Vice President's sister, and should sit below the wives of foreign ambassadors. The leaders of this school of thought were the Longworths...
This did not sit well with Dolly and brother Charles. As the Vice President's hostess, they insisted, Dolly was entitled to the same social precedence as a Vice President's wife. To settle the point, brother Charles asked for a decision from Secretary of State Henry Stimson. (Stimson's predecessor, Frank Kellogg, had irritated Curtis by ruling against Dolly.) After a chat with President Hoover, canny Henry Stimson ruled that the matter would have to be decided by the diplomatic corps. In a plenary session at the British Embassy, the harried diplomats gave...