Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess of Windsor divulged to the readers of Vogue that the life of a brilliant international hostess is strewn with heartaches and pitfalls. "Any dinner of more than 16 people," wrote the Duchess, "I consider enormous. More than eight persons means no souffle-always a melancholy omission . . . Anybody who entertains a lot runs the risk of falling into a rut... The hostess who relies upon memory alone may find herself repeating to friends precisely the same dinner, down to the entremets, that she provided six months before. It is a great pity that Mr. Thomas Watson's efficient International...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
...James Chesnut was 38 when the Civil War began. Highbred and lively, daughter of a governor of South Carolina and wife of a Confederate Senator, she was the sort of Charleston hostess to whom Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs and other pillars of the Confederacy told state secrets...
Actually, President Clapp was quite ready to wrestle with the money problem ("Of course, I didn't like correcting papers either"). But last week, there were too many other things to think about. For one, there was the big tea for parents-the first time she had been hostess to so many people. She had already found out one thing about the job of an unmarried (and so far unattached) woman executive: "I am not only the president, but the president's wife as well...
...Playing hostess to Mrs. Cole and the HSID will prevent Miss Cam from attending the Idler Club tea this afternoon...