Word: hostessing
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Author Wister had told how President Roosevelt a quarter-century ago visited an old southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...
...year's blackest trading day thus far. ¶ President Hoover greeted at the White House Senhor Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil. At a state dinner in the Pan-American Union President Hoover accorded for the first time full social honors to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second lady of the land with Mrs. Gann, absented herself from the function. ¶Hearing from Tokyo that William Cameron Forbes...
...Isabella. The Austro-Hungarian Court has fallen, vanished, but in Budapest she holds court. So for that matter does her neighbor the Archduchess Augusta. It is no secret that members of the Corps Diplomatique, including the U. S. Minister, attend these "courts," bow with deepest consideration to their archducal hostess, and, approaching the large, thronelike-chair on which the Archduchess (either Isabella or Augusta) sits, kiss the back of her white-gloved right hand. The left hand is not gloved, a reminder that the sole purpose of the right glove is to protect Imperial Habsburg flesh from contact with lips...
Miss Evelyn Brent plays the role of the cabaret hostess. She twitters up and down the gamut of human emotion, from smiles and choking sobs to playing fast and loose with a whole, orchestra and the doorman thrown in for good measure. Only she, a detective, and the audience know that underneath it all she's a good girl. And despite the novelty of plot and histrionics, the picture doesn't get over...