The last few summers, I stayed at an uber-rustic artists' wharf called "Poor Richard's Landing," run by two of the town's bests hostesses: Sarah and Dianne.
Libby was the best cook and hostess anywhere, enjoyed music, reading, traveling, keeping up with the news, but most of all she loved her six grandchildren: Benjamin, Matthew, Alexa, Madelyn, Rebecca and Adam.
After the First World War, Marbury remained in New York and became active in the Democratic Party, while de Wolfe spent more and more time in France, where she became the "best-known American hostess in Europe".
In the end, members approved the concessions in Hostess' "last, best offer" with a narrow 53percentt vote.
Due to her family's wealth she collected art and was a patron, but she is best known as a hostess for the cultural elite in her homes in England and Hudson's house in France.
I imagined a lithe young Martha Graham stretching on the sloping back lawn in the shadow of her hostess's best-known, massively sensual two-ton sculpture, "Embrace of the Tree".
The hostess tried her best to knife through the tension.
Gilma is the thieving interpreter, and Genevieve is the hostess's equivocal best friend.
She is doing her best to refuse invitation when hostess arrives and saves her neck by suggesting bridge.
The most popular dish — the Chilean sea bass ($34), with sugar snap peas and mushrooms, the hostess said — is best consumed on the patio under a tree hung with lamps like paper Chinese lanterns.
