Word: hostessing
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Where the Vice President lives is of small concern to the U. S. Government, which gives him $15,000 per annum and leaves him to find his own quarters. When Vice President Charles Curtis established himself, his official-hostess sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, and Mr. Gann, at the fashionable Mayflower Hotel, Washington busybodies eyed the apartment (foyer, double-sized drawing room, dining room for 26 guests, smoking room, library, four bedrooms, two servants' rooms, kitchen, furnished at a cost of $75,000), ascertained its normal rental ($22,500 per year), and hastily concluded that Mr. Curtis...
...table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph of her and her brother's efforts to obtain for her the status that she would automatically have enjoyed if she had been Charles Curtis's wife instead of his sister, or if Edward Everett Gann...
...want to thank you. You were a perfect gentleman." Shaking the hand, Mr. Morrison mournfully retorted: "You were the toughest customer I ever had." He had been unable to pin on her any technical responsibility for alleged liquor-selling in her "club," where she is merely "employed as hostess...
...last week, life had become acutely distressing for Mr. Gann as he observed that a major social war was whirling horribly about his wife, in highest, mightiest circles. Vice President Curtis had notified Secretary of State Kellogg that Mrs. Gann was his hostess and that, as such, she should have the full rank of the Vice President's lady in the complex social scheme of official Washington. Secretary Kellogg had ruled that Mrs. Gann could not rate on the level of the Vice President but below the wives of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Secretary of State...
...Vice President stated that the question of the seating of his hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, at official dinners is not settled. He has notified the Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, of his dissatisfaction "with the action of the former Secretary, Mr. Kellogg, and has asked for a reversal of it. . . . The Vice President feels that he is not bound by Mr. Kellogg's conclusion and has protested to Mr. Stimson...