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Word: hostess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chevy Show (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Dinah Shore plays hostess to George Gobel, Guy Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Holmes Hall has no such resident. The name, however, was registered in the dorm's weekend guest book, but without the signature of her student hostess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing 'Cliffe Miss Remains a Mystery | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...Hostess (interrupting): There isn't enough time to finish this sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $128 Bust | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses. By the time he marries Helen, Henry finds himself managing a vast cattle ranch in the Congo. He has also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Papa Loves Mamba | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Recollections at 30 (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A 1939 salute to Britain's royal family, with Hostess Gertrude Lawrence, Vivien Leigh, Basil Rathbone, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Greer Garson, George M. Cohan, Leslie Howard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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