Word: hostesse
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...Coolidges' plans after March 4 were being discussed at a dinner given by a Cabinet officer for the President and Mrs. Coolidge. The President looked very blank. All angling for information had been futile. The hostess popped out, in spite of herself, with a suggestion. Why, she asked, might not Mr. Coolidge take a chair in "Thrift" at Aberdeen University? President Coolidge smiled broadly...
...Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes. By custom the Vice President's wife presides. But Vice President-Elect Curtis is a widower. His sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, is to serve as his official hostess. Should that make her a Senate Lady? Should that make her president of the club...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge were host and hostess at their last state dinner, in honor of Speaker of the House & Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.* Among the 60 guests were Senator and Mrs. Robinson of Arkansas, Vice President-Elect Curtis, Governor Byrd of Virginia, Dr. Hubert Work, Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler of Manhattan. At 10 o'clock came 100 additional guests. Mrs. Ruth Townsend-Petrovich sang; Rudolph Ganz played the piano...
...amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist. He had persuaded Ludovic Halevy, boulevardier & librettist, to bring him there. The Prince stared at the bosom and hips of his hostess. Emile Zola stared also, fixed her image in his mind. Later he would transfer it into words. That night the Prince escorted the actress from the theatre. But Zola returned to the portfolio of notes for his next novel, Nana, a saga of sensuality...
Died. Howard W. Nesbit, 41, Bronx salesman, brother of famed Evelyn Nesbit, Harlem cabaret hostess, onetime wife of Harry K. Thaw; from suicide by hanging; in The Bronx...