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Word: skirvin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Marguerite Skirvin Tyson, 58, sister of famed Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, coheiress of an oil fortune, a warm, friendly woman who collected French antiques, raised champion miniature poodles, and tended to the details of the parties that she quietly co-hostessed with her sister; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1963 | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...Washington's Colony Restaurant sat raven-haired Gwendolyn Detre de Surany Cafritz, all but unnoticed as she toyed with a martini, chain-smoked Kools, and lunched with her sister. Just four china-crammed tables away sat another longtime queen bee of Washington society, Perle Skirvin Mesta, the old hostess with the mostest. She had with her a single friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: New Frontier's New Order | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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