Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, on March 4, Mrs. Gann rode to the capitol with Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, only to find no Senate gallery seat reserved for her. Herbert Hoover Jr. gave her his seat. On that occasion Mr. Gann rode alone to the Capitol at the tag-end of the procession. Nobody...
Mr. Gann placed himself at a remote table in a corner while Vice President Curtis led Mrs. Gann grandly up to the head table. But there no seat was saved for Mrs. Gann. The swart Vice Presidential face clouded. To the rescue hurried Mr. Gann and conducted his wife back...
The State Department went into a stew. Statesman Stimson hemmed, hawed, temporized. President Hoover asked the Vice President and the Ganns to dinner at the White House and escorted Mrs. Gann into the state dining room himself, with Mr. Gann bringing up the rear. But this meant nothing because present...
The diplomatic corps performs socially in a tight little world of its own. The hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany...
Just 100 years ago this season, Washington society was convulsed by the celebrated Peggy O'Neill Eaton case. While the details of the Eaton and Gann cases are not similar, analogies between them have been drawn. Peggy O'Neill was the daughter of a Washington innkeeper. She was...