Bachelorette party for a pre-wedding party, "hen party" was used in the United States as a general term for an all-female gathering, usually held at a hostess's residence. In 1897, "The Deseret News" noted that a hen party was a "time honored idea that tea and chitchats, gossip smart hats, constitute the necessary adjuncts to these particular gatherings". In 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt was described as hosting a Christmas-time hen party for cabinet wives and "ladies of the press". The bachelorette party is consciously modeled after the centuries-old bachelor's party, which is itself historically a black tie dinner given by the bridegroom, or
Red Hen restaurant controversy Red Hen restaurant controversy The Red Hen restaurant controversy was an American political controversy that began June 22, 2018, when a co-owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. The co-owner later cited Sanders' role in what the co-owner called the "inhumane and unethical" Trump administration, in which Sanders had "publicly defended the president's cruelest policies". The Red Hen restaurant is a 26-seat farm-to-table restaurant almost 200 miles from Washington, D.C. in Lexington, Virginia (population 7,000). At about 8:00pm on Friday, June 22, 2018, The Red Hen's