Word: hostessing
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Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
Bill Murphy got his connections (plus ulcers) in the radio business, then in the Navy. Mrs. Murphy got hers as a travel expert, then as a professional gift-shopper, hostess, and party-arranger...
...confused with Washington, D.C. Hostess (Father Struck It Rich) Evalyn Walsh McLean...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
Whatever the evening's hostess may think of the accuracy (or propriety) of her guest's report, or citizens in general of Adamic's logic and tendency, Dinner at the White House is sprightly reading in parts. The old ban against quoting the President's most casual remarks without permission is now off in Franklin Roosevelt's case. The result is a kind of super-Winchellian account of White House gossip, undoubtedly the first of many. Sample: at dinner F.D.R. mentioned that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come...