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...Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...
...John Anderson, tackled the smörgåsbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke up. As the happy guests filed out, each received from hostess and host a pound of American-brand coffee, a rationed and prized rarity in Denmark...
...play, in verse. Yet it has the character of a psychological study, of drawing-room comedy, of domestic drama. It begins significantly with a cocktail party, emblem of all that is frivolous, ephemeral and heterogeneous in modern life. Characteristically, one guest is a stranger even to the host. The hostess is absent-called, her husband explains, to the sickbed of an aunt...
...Monica went looking for a job on shore-a procedure that was educational enough. For a while, she grubbed around in vegetable gardens as a worker in the Land Army. Later she struggled as a matron in a camp for conscripted girl munitions workers, then as an army canteen hostess. But her job as hostess seemed to consist chiefly of peeling potatoes and being attacked by hordes of fleas. Once she found herself in a cellar with a self-styled photographer who offered her a job developing dirty pictures. Finally she tried herself out as an assistant librarian and then...
...Hostess college for the affair will be Mt. Holyoke. Mrs. John A. Dunn, president of the Boston Mt. Holyoke Club, is chairman for this year's event. Organizing and running the conference rotates annually among the seven colleges, Radcliffe's next turn coming around...