Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, the candelabra and chilled-wine circuit hummed with hostesses plotting and providing. Mostly it was the embassies that entertained the visitors; being conscious of the high importance of congressional favor, they also invited key Senators. Robert Taft's attempt to cut EGA authorizations (see The Congress) set off Senate debates which lasted until 11 p.m., and spoiled dinners all along Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row. Many a hostess who invited a Senator had to settle for just his wife...
...TIME aimed a sneak punch at Democratic President Truman which landed plump on the good-womanly face of Hostess Perle Mesta. Shame on TIME...
...quite two years after her death, executors of the estate of Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean asked court permission to sell some of her $591,107 worth of jewels so they could pay debts and taxes. Among the baubles: the fabled Hope Diamond, once spoken of in terms of millions, now appraised at $176,920. Last week's new figures also indicated that the McLeans bought it on credit in 1912 for $100,000 ($20,000 down, $1,000 a month...
...Just Act Dumb." Perle admits that the duties of "unofficial hostess" to the President are heavy. "I have to know exactly what's on his mind and what he thinks of people all the time," she explains. "I know, too. I don't have to call him and ask." Then, too, people pester her. "They all know I can get to the White House any time I need to. Lots of them try to pump me to find out who's going to be fired and who's going to get hired." She winked. "I just...
Rich, gusty, vigorous Perle Mesta obviously served Harry Truman well as Washington's No. i hostess, and Truman was obviously grateful. It seemed a very satisfactory arrangement for both...