Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cribbage Board. A hearty, goodfellow type of woman, Perle Mesta is an Oklahoma widow, whose wealth came from a marriage of Oklahoma oil and Pittsburgh machine tools. Not even her warmest admirers, who liked her liveliness, would credit her with overwhelming charm or notable wit. But ambassadors, Senators and Cabinet officers come at her beck. In a city where a hostess' success can be scored like points in a cribbage game by counting up the rank of her guests, Perle Mesta outscores them all. Unlike her predecessors, Perle Mesta won her position not by prestige and not alone...
When the news of her victory reached Dr. Van Waters yesterday, she remarked that "the main task is to keep this great public interest which has been aroused functioning in constructive channels ... The great good is that the public has learned something about the needs and nature of the woman offender...
Margaret Truman has spurned the Hasty Pudding Club's invitation to be the first woman to appear on the Pudding stage in its 101 year history, her managers announced yesterday...
Though naturally "delighted as any young girl would be" by her invitation and selection as "woman of the year," she turned down the offer to sing in "Tomorrow Is Manana" because she is too busy studying singing, the manager concluded...
...Miss Truman accepted, she would be the first woman to perform in 101 years of "Pudding" theatricals...