Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...panic in Hanoi: there was more than enough food to go round, and the piaster was steady at 75 to the dollar; there were many who looked forward to a profitable co-existence with the Communists. "The Viets will need good food," mused the French hostess of the fine Le Manoir restaurant. "We shall provide it for them." But Hanoi's one sure barometer, real estate, was sharply lower, and it was possible to buy a gleaming white villa for the price of a normal year's rental. And North Viet Nam's able, disillusioned governor, Nguyen...
...itself. He does not smoke, dance or gorge. "He's a great believer in the American drugstore," said a friend, "because he can eat a little and quickly." In Paris, he is rarely invited to theater premieres or fashionable salons. "Getting choice invitations requires work," says one Parisian hostess. "Pierre doesn't go around complimenting people. He just doesn't care." The only passion he developed during these years was one for skiing...
From the moment he boarded the Air India Constellation at Geneva, Chou En-lai set out to charm the Indians. He smiled graciously at the air hostess and murmured "I am grateful" at the slightest mark of attention. He ostentatiously relished the galley's chicken curry and passed around autographs and packets of Chinese cigarettes. Just before the plane touched down at New Delhi's Palam airport, Chou handed the crew a written certificate: "Skillful pilotship and wonderful service. All this is worthy of being learned by Chinese airlines. I am grateful to the Indian government for sending...
...ignorance and fluency, the poetry of those androgynous literary ladies with three names who produce a kind of verbal ectoplasm to order as a waiter dishes up spaghetti-only to find that the fiercest of these, a wealthy huntress of small, seedy lions (such as himself) ... is his hostess for the evening...
Married. Lotte Adenauer, 28, West Germany's first lady, daughter and official hostess of widowed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Heribert Multhaupt, 32, Aachen architect; in a civil ceremony, to be followed by a Roman Catholic wedding in Bonn Cathedral on May 11; in Rhöndorf, Germany...