Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first piece of the first batch listed above gives an acute analysis of the ways and woes of a charming hostess who endeavors to entertain some dozen heterogeneous people at once, and wins by being vague. The next is a grim one: a diagnostic study of a diagnostic man. It shows what happens when a psychiatrist has a love affair. The third snaps itself abruptly to the vaudeville stage and gives us Noel asking his lovely, amazingly gifted partner, Gertrude Lawrence, "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that...
...Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, with whom two days later he received that indefatigable cultivator of the great, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, then went out to look at local churches. Between these duties at Inisfada, Mrs. Brady's estate, Cardinal Pacelli chatted, supped with his blue-eyed hostess, born Genevieve Garvan, now a papal Duchess and board chairman of the Girl Scouts of America. Also at Inisfada the Cardinal celebrated daily Mass in devout and generous Mrs. Brady's private chapel...
...these specialties ought perhaps to be considered merely as an example of the variety which 14 student leaders and three alumni have to offer the prospective hostess...
...Pete's lap. When he returned for it, after the police released him, Pete poked him in the nose, kept the money. He thereby added another enemy to the horde interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor in the cold blue eyes of Thelma, a restaurant hostess, new worries beset him: Thelma loved to manage people, and thought she knew how to get him out of his mess. She tried to do so primarily by confiding in stool pigeons. Pete learned that her best friend was an ex-street-walker with whom he had once lived...
...Machiavelli-and-soda." Sir Robert's usual professional touch was evident last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little time in England for her health, and so invited her sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons." At once every chancellory in Europe sprang to the alert, expecting some major British move behind the Nazi...