Word: mesta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twentieth century Washington hostesses wielded such political power that they achieved wider public acclaim. Perle Mesta, known as "the hostess with the mostest," became Harry Truman's ambassador to Luxembourg, the inspiration for the Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam and the subject of a 1949 cover story in this magazine. Bill Clinton posted Pamela Harriman as his ambassador to France. It was the least the President could do for a woman who used her talent for entertaining, and her husband's money, to bring fractious Democrats together in the 1980s, eventually uniting them behind the young Governor of Arkansas...
...powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek--which Phil had acquired in 1961--and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown, she was Walter Lippmann and Perle Mesta rolled into one. Much has been made of her salon--the network stars, the Vice Presidents, the gray eminences. But her reach was deeper. She was the connective tissue for the permanent substratum of the capital--the one layered with beat reporters, academics and junior Senators yet to head...
...powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek - which Phil had acquired in 1961 - and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown, she was Walter Lippmann and Perle Mesta rolled into one. Much has been made of her salon - the network stars, the Vice Presidents, the gray eminences. But her reach was deeper. She was the connective tissue for the permanent substratum of the capital - the one layered with beat reporters, academics and junior Senators yet to head...
...Hang a lamb chop in the window," was the advice legendary hostess Perle Mesta gave those who wanted to make a place for themselves in the capital. Craig Spence, a would-be power broker with a taste for Edwardian suits, took that advice to heart when he arrived in Washington in the late 1970s and hurled himself into high-intensity party-giving at his elegant town house in the fashionable Kalorama section of town...
...patrol of the crack "General Somoza" battalion surrounded the village of Varilla in Nicaragua's Zelaya province. With the troops were several jueces de mesta (police magistrates). The official charge that brought them there: five of Varilla's campesino families had aided antigovernment guerrillas. The soldiers shot, bayoneted or strangled four men, eleven women and 29 children. After dumping the bodies in an unmarked pit, the magistrates divided the villagers' land among themselves...