Word: hostessing
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Oriental royalty in the person of Prince Yasuhito Chichibuno-miya, second son of the Mikado, deigned to dine last week with able Californian hostess Mrs. Newton Booth Knox at London. Present also was able Californian tennis player Helen Wills...
Count Bruga's tragedy is experiencing crises of incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the street. . . . Again, his patron tenders him a banquet. He refuses to join in the consumption of bourgeois food and makes his repast on wine from the highboy. His ejection follows a violent attack of temperament during which bottles crash on servants' skulls and the refectory is strewn with pulverized...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge were guests of Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, at dinner at the Willard Hotel. Dr. Work is a widower and his daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell, acted as hostess. His son-in-law, his two sons and two daughters-in-law were also present, also Justices Van Devanter and Stone of the Supreme Court, Senators Warren, Phipps, Ernst, Means, Goff, Congressmen Madden, Tilson, Taylor, Hardy, Governor Parks of Alaska, Will H. Hays, Frank W. Steamsmany of them with their ladies? and enough others to make it the largest dinner given to the President this...
...Twenty-Five.....................................Twenty English.........................................Scottish Sportsman.......................................Sportswoman "Best Princely Dancer In England"..............."Most Beautiful daughter of a Scottish Duke" Career: Eton; Sandhurst; Royal Rifles;..........Often hostess at the Duke's four seats: Thirteenth Hussars; Tenth Hussars;..............Dalkeith House, Dalkeith; Bowhill, Selkirk; cornerstones; inspections, etc., etc., etc......Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill; Boughton House, .................................................Kettering, Northants Old Family.......................................Older* Family...
...canter, gallop or jump, even in the English saddle with its low pommel and cantle. In the McClellan saddle of the U. S. Army or the cowboy saddle of the ranches, she will have even a more secure seat, as can testify famed Rodeo Rider "Texas" Guinan, now boisterous hostess of a Manhattan supper club.† She never found anything exotic or treacherous in a man's saddle, and certainly would never weary her pony with the heavier sidesaddle...