Word: mesta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perle Mesta the call of duty sounded last week above the merry tinkle of cocktail glasses and the clatter of knives & forks. President Truman named his favorite partygiver and Washington's No. 1 hostess to be the first U.S. Minister to the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...
Rumors that Washington Hostess Perle Mesta would be the next U.S. Ambassador to Denmark were getting a cool reception in some Copenhagen circles. "Nowadays in diplomacy," the conservative Berlingske Tidende delicately pointed out, "you do not ask questions about sex, but about qualifications...
...Attended the annual party given in his honor by Washington Hostess Perle Mesta (TIME, March...
...seems to me that Mrs. Perle Mesta could find something more to do with her money than use it for social splurges in our nation's capital . . . with conditions as they are in Europe...
...TIME aimed a sneak punch at Democratic President Truman which landed plump on the good-womanly face of Hostess Perle Mesta. Shame on TIME...