Word: hostessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missouri's earnest, plodding Forrest C. Donnell is one U.S. Senator who has never sampled the hospitality of Washington's No. 1 hostess, Perle Mesta. Last week, when her appointment as U.S. minister to Luxembourg reached the Senate floor, Republican Donnell was ready & waiting with a hungry look in his eye. First he demanded to know whether the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had ever discussed Perle's qualifications (it had not); then he read extensively from J. Rives Childs's American Foreign Service, to prove she had none...
...grandes dames were inclined to sneer at Mrs. Cafritz' ambitions-but then, they had never accepted Perle Mesta either, and Perle Mesta did all right without them (TIME, March 14). Budapest-born Gwen Cafritz, as a matter of fact, had never even quite made the grade with the hostess whose evening slippers she hopes to fill. Gwen was never invited to Perle's parties, although Perle received several invitations from Gwen. Washington gossips like to say that when Perle took a house not far from the Cafritzes, Gwen promptly phoned her, said: "Now that...
...Perle Mesta the call of duty sounded last week above the merry tinkle of cocktail glasses and the clatter of knives & forks. President Truman named his favorite partygiver and Washington's No. 1 hostess to be the first U.S. Minister to the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...
...Senate was expected to confirm Mrs. Mesta with little delay (she had been hostess to plenty of them), so she quickly set about preparing to leave for Europe. She closed "Uplands," her fashionable Foxhall Road mansion, ordered the Mesta mansion at Newport shut up, and moved into Washington's Sulgrave Club. There was one annoying hitch: A shipment of costly fabrics containing materials for the ministerial wardrobe was pilfered en route to Washington, and even the FBI, when called in, couldn't find it. But Perle was not fazed. "It's too hot to think about clothes...
Rumors that Washington Hostess Perle Mesta would be the next U.S. Ambassador to Denmark were getting a cool reception in some Copenhagen circles. "Nowadays in diplomacy," the conservative Berlingske Tidende delicately pointed out, "you do not ask questions about sex, but about qualifications...