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...Following the nation-old practice of dining with Cabinet members in order of precedence, President & Mrs. Hoover were last week guests of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.* Mr. Mellon's daughter, Mrs. David K. Este Bruce, was his hostess...
...London, because there is no Mrs. Mellon, it fell to tall, golden-haired, blue-eyed Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary of War, youngest Cabinet lady, to accompany President Hoover to the Mayflower Hotel last week to dine with Vice President Curtis and his hostess-sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. After dinner the President and Mrs. Hurley went to a reception at the Congressional Wom en's Club, leaving Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gann behind. Mrs. Gann did not attend with the Vice President because the club had failed to follow custom by electing her president. After...
...lanterns in the garden, music, fireworks, plenty of drink. All the neighbors are there, among them Schoolteacher Platonov, intelligent, charming, young, popular: the perfect lady-killer, but with too much Hamlet in his makeup. His wife adores him; they have a little son. Other women adore him too: his hostess, the General's widow, her daughter-in-law, Sofya, just married. Platonov is fond of his wife, but imagines that he is in love with Anna Petrovna, who is also being pursued by a rich old man and his Frenchified...
Everyone gets at least slightly drunk. Platonov's wife goes home early. That worthless fellow is in great form: he has drunk a good deal, and it all goes to his heart. He makes love to his hostess, to the newly married Sofya, goes a little too far with Grekova, whom he humiliates by kissing soundly and then throwing on a table. When he gets home in the small hours, his adoring wife is waiting up for him, but he will not go to bed; he sits outside and indulges in remorse for his disgraceful conduct. Anna Petrovna comes...
After committing any of the mere violent or original breaches of what passes for good etiquette, one of these cards, with the particular sins of the previous evening checked off, can be mailed, or at least so its promoters assert, to the offended host or hostess. A sample of the card inspected by editors of the CRIMSON last night, however, suggested some doubt as to whether receipt of the missile by the host or hostess would in any way contribute to mended feelings and repaired relations...