Word: hostessing
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Died. Ethel S. Sanford, wife of John Sanford, famed carpet manufacturer, horse owner; at Brookville, L. I. She was several times hostess to the Prince of Wales on his recent visit. On Sept. 28, while she sat with a notable company at dinner in her house, her jewel box was robbed of $50,000 worth of jewels...
Divorce Rumored. Mrs. Mathilda Townsend Gerry, from her husband, Peter Goelet Gerry, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island; in Paris. Mrs. Gerry, prominent hostess in Washington, D. C., last January bought a string of dark pearls from Felix Yusupov, Russian princeling, allegedly valued...
Notre Dame de South Bend, Ind., was a ruthless hostess to the Georgia Technicians, sending them home sorely battered, 34 to 3, a score characteristic of the potential national champions. The Georgian linemen were hardly impressive, permitting substitutes and regulars alike to pass them by with great frequency. But in the Georgian backfield, Fullback Douglas Wycoff covered himself with the day's indvidual glory. His best effort was a 47-yard run to Notre Dame's 1-yard line, an effort cheated ironically by Time, which ended the game as Wycoff came to earth...
...extremely doubtful whether the Prince of Wales, when he comes to Boston to visit Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Tuckerman Jr. at their place in Hamilton, will come to Harvard at all, according to his hostess...
...royal host and hostess were affable, interested, loquacious in Buck- ingham Palace Gardens that afternoon. The New York Times, with seeming bad taste, headlined: "AMERICANS TAKE TEA IN KING'S BACK