Word: mesta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toylike palace, she prefers to remain secluded in a small side room. Last week Luxembourg, whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with plump aplomb, and her ideas of a good party were known to differ from those held in Luxembourg...
...Minister Mesta was a little late getting to her post. When her Packard-borne party (with a luggage-laden Ford in the vanguard) motored from Paris to the border, they were stopped cold by strangely hostile frontier guards. After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
...Luxembourg, sailed off to work with a shipboard farewell from 80 friends, including Mrs. Harry S. Truman and daughter Margaret, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred M. Vinson and onetime Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde. Amid the orchids, champagne and caviar, someone asked: "How does one address you, Mrs. Mesta-as Your Excellency?" Beamed the new diplomatiste: "Just call me Perle...
Washington society noted an unlamented loss in Mrs. Harry S. Truman. At a party for Mrs. Perle Mesta, new U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, new Treasurer of the U.S., Bess Truman displayed a new silhouette, 20 pounds slimmer than the old one. Her dietary secret: eating just what the President does, but passing up the salt...
Margaret Truman laid aside her pitch pipes and throat sprays to spend a "restful weekend" in Newport, R.I. with Madame Minister Perle Mesta, attended an American Legion carnival and rode the Ferris wheel with her hostess...