Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appraisal of the estate if the late Washington hostess, Evalyn Walsh McLean exploded a popular myth. Her famed, traditionally unlucky, 44¼-kt. Hope Diamond, which Sunday-supplement readers had thought of as a $2,000,000 gem, was valued at $176,920 ($22,920 more than was paid...
Died. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 89, widow of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President; in Manhattan. A niece of Harrison's first wife, she helped out as White House hostess during her aunt's last illness, married Harrison in 1896, 3½ years after her aunt's death, three years after Harrison left the White House...
...party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked: "Is the new Prime Minister what you would call an educated...
...Since Jinnah became Governor General, Fatima has blossomed, in her wraithlike fashion, as official hostess. When Jinnah's illness kept him in Lahore, Fatima paid regal visits every day to hospitals, refugee camps and schools. If photographers failed to turn up, Fatima was beside herself. Lahore's famed rose gardens were renamed Gulistan-i-Fatima (Miss Fatima Gardens). Her car sported a blue personal flag with the initials "FJ" encircled in the center...
...human blood. When work began at Agriculture's laboratory at Orlando, Fla., the lice were kept thriving on their favorite food. Hired human hosts lay face down on cots, their backs covered with lice (one young woman was able to put herself through college as this kind of hostess). Dr. E. F. Knipling finally did these people out of a job by breeding lice which could live on special rabbits...