Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play, in verse. Yet it has the character of a psychological study, of drawing-room comedy, of domestic drama. It begins significantly with a cocktail party, emblem of all that is frivolous, ephemeral and heterogeneous in modern life. Characteristically, one guest is a stranger even to the host. The hostess is absent-called, her husband explains, to the sickbed of an aunt...
...Monica went looking for a job on shore-a procedure that was educational enough. For a while, she grubbed around in vegetable gardens as a worker in the Land Army. Later she struggled as a matron in a camp for conscripted girl munitions workers, then as an army canteen hostess. But her job as hostess seemed to consist chiefly of peeling potatoes and being attacked by hordes of fleas. Once she found herself in a cellar with a self-styled photographer who offered her a job developing dirty pictures. Finally she tried herself out as an assistant librarian and then...
...Hostess college for the affair will be Mt. Holyoke. Mrs. John A. Dunn, president of the Boston Mt. Holyoke Club, is chairman for this year's event. Organizing and running the conference rotates annually among the seven colleges, Radcliffe's next turn coming around...
...proves he hasn't a flat head") and Stanley combs which "never go to the dentist, because their teeth stay in." In 45 minutes, she showed 50 different items, took in $43 in orders-more than enough to earn a set of table knives for her hostess, and a commission of about $14 for herself...
Married. Henry J. Kaiser Jr., 32, assistant to his famed industrialist father; and onetime airlines hostess Barbara Preininger, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Inglewood, Calif...