Word: hostessing
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Surrounded by such dignitaries as President Conant, Alfred North Whitehead, Heinrich Bruening, Dean Hanford, and host Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Harvard's president from 1909 to 1933 performed the now traditional ceremony of cutting his birthday cake, which was brought in by famed Bellboy hostess Mrs. Mary Healey...
...only light was from the candles and they were set close down to the tables so that the floor was in shadow. That was what made the huge birthday cake seem as though it were floating through the air when the hostess carried it through the crooked aisles up to the high table. A gleaming white mountain covered with--thirty candles, the Vagabond would say. A cake of many candles...
...also was less Great than advertised, more liberal in word than in deed: The peasants "sank to the lowest level of slavery during her so-called enlightened reign." "She was a fairly clever woman . . . such a one as, given the means, might make a success as a London hostess...
...eyes was the fact that Mme Alexandra Kollontay, the Soviet Minister to Sweden, suddenly was called to Moscow. The world's first fully accredited woman diplomat, Minister Kollontay has had 16 years' experience in Scandinavia. Handsome, spirited, cultured, fashionably dressed, Mme Kollontay has long been an exquisite hostess whose invitations were eagerly sought. More than anyone else, this talented revolutionary-turned-diplomat, daughter of a Tsarist general and a part Finnish mother, would be able to tell Negotiator Stalin just how solid Scandinavian neutrality was, just when and where the Scandinavian countries might fight to retain...
...both families. Hut not always. In the excitement and instability of change, the visiting children broke things, fought with their young hosts, ran wild. In most homes the kitchen was the focus of friction, mothers clashing over meals and washing privileges. One distraught visitor took a knife to her hostess. Even when things ran smoothly, women longed to get back to their homes and husbands, if they were still home. The younger women were particularly homesick (some were also apprehensive lest their husbands stray in their absence). Since the youngest mothers tended to have the youngest children, last week...