Word: hostessing
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Home's wife, who was the daughter of his old headmaster but cannot remember the Earl as an Etonian, shuttles with her husband between London, The Hirsel and Dorneywood, their country home in Buckinghamshire. She knits his socks, often cooks his breakfast. She is also an accomplished hostess, and confesses: "I love politics, because we are not the worrying kind. My husband is even more of an unworrier than I am." The Homes have three grown daughters and a son, 19-year-old Lord Dunglass, who will eventually inherit his father's suspended titles-unless he too wants...
...lived, generously, and this fact alone put him at a disadvantage with people. His early letters record his triumphs over the demon gin; his defeats were recorded by others. Because he was a famous young man, he could never anonymously fall down a flight of stairs or insult his hostess or make a howling clown of himself, because someone was always there industriously to record a momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough...
...social life of Washington is a damask extension of the business day. The season's dinner parties are invariably dimpled with a dizzying variety of ambassadors, Cabinet members, agency heads, socialites, Pentagonians, and sometimes the President himself. And a major problem to the Washington hostess is the proper seating of her guests by the order of their rank. This is called precedence, or among the truly ingroup, precedence...
Callie this year advises the uncertain hostess that U.S. Senators can now be moved up three notches, just below the Cabinet. Where to seat the Budget Director? In the old days, presumably because budget balancing was important, he was No. 14 in line; now he has been dropped to No. 24. Where to put the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the administrator of the Agency for International Development? Peace and international cooperation are definitely fashionable. They move 26 steps forward to Nos. 19 and 20. The U.N.'s Secre tary-General...
...fellow countryman, "but since De Gaulle . . ." It has been said that if Alphand feels slighted at a dinner, he grabs his chapeau and leaves. Once, at a dinner party given by "Scottie" Lanahan (daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Alphand discovered that Adlai Stevenson was scheduled to sit at the hostess' right. Alphand thought he ought to have that place of honor. After all, the French Ambassador outranks the U.S. Ambassador...