Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with Washington, D.C. Hostess (Father Struck It Rich) Evalyn Walsh McLean...
After that night, Mrs. St. George stopped worrying. A first-string hostess of Tuxedo, a first cousin of Franklin Roosevelt, a member of the board of governors of the Women's National Republican Club, vice president of the St. George Coal Co. and an expert rider, she was politically irresistible. What's more, Ham Fish was 100% for her, and down in the bottom of its heart, the 29th District still liked...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
Whatever the evening's hostess may think of the accuracy (or propriety) of her guest's report, or citizens in general of Adamic's logic and tendency, Dinner at the White House is sprightly reading in parts. The old ban against quoting the President's most casual remarks without permission is now off in Franklin Roosevelt's case. The result is a kind of super-Winchellian account of White House gossip, undoubtedly the first of many. Sample: at dinner F.D.R. mentioned that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come...
Miss Holman will sing tunes from her new musical, currently playing at the Cambridge Summer Theater; and Professor Matthiessen will discuss the PAC's tentative plans for the fall elections. Members of the event's hostess corps yesterday extended invitations through the CRIMSON to all University men interested in meeting the guests...