This week's Cotillion has started.
If you don't have anything nice to say...come sit down by us.
Our should-be Patron Saint, Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
The original lovely, Conservative, opinionated American woman.
According to Katherine Graham's "Personal History":
"After one party they both attended early in 1920, my mother described Alice as having been in a very carnal sort of mood," Graham wrote. "She ate three chops, told shady stories and finally sang in a deep bass voice: Nobody cultivates me, I'm wild, I'm wild."
I'd like to see Ann Coulter do that.
Posted by floridacracker at June 7, 2005 08:26 AMI always have loved that saying, "If you don't hve anything nice to say, come sit by me (us)."
;-)
Posted by: Housewife at June 7, 2005 10:08 AMAlice Roosevelt Longworth. She was a little devil.
Posted by: Donnah at June 7, 2005 10:10 AMHousewife beat me to it.
When I was a kid, she was still a major focus of the D.C. "Society" scene, a bit like Nancy Astor in an earlier era.
You couldn't not invite her but a lot of hostesses plainly wished that she was unavailable.
A rumored quote from John Hay, TR's Secy. of State. "Theodore, how do you expect to run the country, when you can't even control Alice?"
Posted by: Mr.Kurtz at June 7, 2005 03:50 PM