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Word: hostess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Sorry to mislead you girls on the bowties for last Saturday, but you gotta start a column with something! It was a nice party, anyhoo, thanks to hundreds of beautiful girls, including our chief hostess, Mrs. Giard, who's mad at me for reading the funnies while dancing... The only unpopular guy there was somebody named Paul Jones who seemed to lose friends and alienate people after 2300 and two drinks with the same woman. At least Ruby Newman had a helluva good time...

Author: By Midshipman M. J. roth, | Title: Midshipmen-- | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions. Said she last week, as she reclined on a green plush L.A.C.C. sofa: "I am interested in the Pan-American relations phase of this course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culture Takes Wings | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...obtain this second book, the original one must be shown and marked so that no person will be able to get two of the new sets of coupons. These old books can be obtained from the hostess of the House Dining Hall where they were handed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ration Books Will Be Available to Men Living Here | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

When the new book has been obtained it must then be handed back to the hostess. These books will be good only for processed foods and meat, leaving the number one book for sugar, coffee, shoes, and anything else that may be tacked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ration Books Will Be Available to Men Living Here | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

...lawyer's efforts to "put in a fix" on his draft board, Jordan is clapped into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked up a new dodge-stealing tank specifications to sell to Nazi spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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