Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thoughtful Hostess. In San Diego, Herman Vanderheyden, accepting his wife's invitation to a reconciliation party after a ¹ 3-year separation, was greeted by two specially invited guests: deputy sheriffs who clapped him in jail on a non-support complaint...
Riley enlisted men's club. "The hostess tries her best," he explained, "but it's a pretty dull place." Aside from the movies, a couple of 3.2 beer parlors and a bowling alley, "Junk Town" isn't much better. The Army life is still a lonely life and the corner of Sixth and Washington at 10 p.m. is still a pretty lonely corner, as lonely as thousands of corners known by thousands of U.S. soldiers...
...nights later, Yugoslav Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic, a relatively minor diplomat, had 120 guests in to hear his compatriot, Violinist Zlatko Balakovic, give a recital. He, too, had Senators and a minister, and his party had a fine international air-although his official hostess, one Dr. Mica Trbojezic, did run around popping little meatballs into her guests' mouths...
...other parties were just as imposing. Hostess of the first was diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta, an Oklahoma heiress who zealously seines big names from Washington's social sea. The sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise...
...Washington, the Treasury had good news for Vincent Astor and Evalyn ("Hope Diamond") Walsh McLean. Astor had overpaid his '44 income tax by $29,788, Hostess McLean...