Word: luxembourger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington cocktail party, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, arrived in identical hats (an elephant-grey number embellished with shell pearls and sequin-dotted veil). The two ladies, both schooled in diplomacy, merely spoke politely...
...National Committee's women's division, buzzed into Missouri to sting Republican Senator Forrest Donnell, who is having a hard time getting reelected. The Senator, charged India, is against women. Proof? "He distinguished himself as the only Senator to vote against Mrs. Perle Mesta" as Minister to Luxembourg...
...each other as a preliminary to attacking one after the other. The Schuman plan offers real assurance in this direction. The most effective way to prevent Germany from making another attack against Western Europe is to consolidate her heavy industry in the Ruhr with that of Belgium, France and Luxembourg under an autonomous authority controlled by the nations of Western Europe...
...radio telephone from the French Liner Liberté, at sea last week, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post got an exclusive social tidbit: "Perle Mesta, American minister to Luxembourg and Washington's famous partygiver, starred as a guest at a party . . . She was guest of honor at the captain's table . . . [and] proved that she could 'take' as well as 'give' parties amiably." The Post's alert shipboard correspondent went on to prove himself a master of society-page cliches: the passengers, "a notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite...
...endeavor and achievement," but it has somewhat relaxed the high, moral tone that accompanied Reith's stewardship. Under its present director general, Sir William Haley, Sundays are no longer given over wholly to the sermons and serious music that drove 60% of British listeners to tune in Radio Luxembourg and Radio Normandie...