Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excerpt from report: "The hostess of the night club and speakeasy is the American counterpart of the Geisha Girl...
...Frera Knight The raiders were 100 Federal agents, picked from distant districts, whom Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran ordered to Manhattan in February to "get the lay." In couples and squads and single, well-dressed and well-heeled, they had ingratiated themselves with night club proprietors. Helen Morgan, actress-hostess, was angered to discover that the "Mr. & Mrs. Lon Tyson" whom she had played with for weeks in and out of business hours, were spies and informers...
Team No. 77?Dorothy Brennon, hostess, $40; Alfred Ippaliti, interior decorator, $50. Prize money...
...their vitality, theirs was an automatic existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...
...Number Nine were well rewarded for their labors. Doffing helmets, wiping hands on shirt, they soon were regaled with coffee, sandwiches, perfectos, etc., etc., not to mention genial wisecracks and charming smiles, all served with a maximum of relish after the excitement by perhaps the most persuasive host and hostess in all U. S. politics-Speaker of the House and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth...