Word: cocktailing
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...leak, the qualities voted most desirable in a musical wife were musical background and talent as a hostess. Biggest faults: taking stands on too many issues and bragging about husbands. Warned one conductor's wife, who found herself smiling icily at an antagonistic newspaper critic all through a cocktail party: "You have to be impervious to insult...
...best is West Germany's sleek new Rheingold Express, which clicks along at 100 m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation car for Rhineland castle watching, cocktail lounge and gourmet restaurant, plus telephone service and a trilingual secretary for eager businessmen...
...succeeded quite well since then. Several thousand students have now received a sub-lethal dose of a few great books and some impressive ideas. They not only exchange them at cocktail parties, but sit up for hours in Holworthy or arguing about them. Those early-morning hours are when Gen Ed succeeds most...
Taxis & Dancers. For the first time in that year. South Korea seemed to be enjoying itself. Even tough, stone-faced General Park flashed an occasional smile as he moved among his guests at a cocktail party in the Blue House, Korea's presidential palace. In Seoul, flower-bedecked streetcars and freshly painted aquamarine Jeep taxis rolled smoothly over newly paved, neon-lighted roads. The city's 1,500 youthful, homeless ragpickers had been rounded up, dressed in blue fatigue uniforms and drafted into a service corps for rehabilitation...
...associate editor of Harper's rival, Vogue-having switched magazines last month. And of the lithe models doing their stylish slither down the inter-table runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model, and as the newest fashion staffer on Harper's Bazaar. Said she of her latest venture: "I have so much to learn that I'm killing myself...