Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it had "no mission, no policy ... no tactical news of maneuvers and any news about anything else is guaranteed to be strictly unreliable." But the Cydoner chronicled the plaintive tale of Private Kountze, who stumbled on what he thought was a U.S.O. house. He wondered how the "senior hostess" had 15 flimsy-gowned daughters all approximately the same age. Not until the police raided did Private Kountze know...
Born. To Evalyn Washington McLean Reynolds, 20, daughter of Hostess Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; and Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 58: a daughter, 6 Ib. 8 oz. (her first child, his fourth); in Washington...
...Southerners broke up a small party at which Negroes were dancing with English girls. They demolished some furniture, insulted the hostess...
Died. Clara Cook Kellogg, 80, widow of ex-Secretary of State, ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Frank Billings Kellogg; in St. Paul. A popular hostess in Washington and London, she was a tactful, patient woman whose grace often counteracted her husband's impulsive conversation. Kellogg once wrote that Coolidge said he had made him Ambassador as much because of Mrs. Kellogg as Kellogg himself...
...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...