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Word: hostessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical Hello, Sucker, Mar tha Raye plays Texas Guinan, famed speak-times E.D.T. easy hostess of the '20s, whose forthright greeting gives the show its name. Wilson Stone created the score for this pre-Broadway show, with story line by Larry Marks and Robert Ennis Touroff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Passionate Urge. Wells, in one of his favorite words, had the "woosh" of a man who judges everything to be within his grasp. When his first wife proved a sexual disappointment, he took a second. When the second wife proved a superb hostess-manager-but another sexual disappointment-he kept her and took mistresses, including the novelist Rebecca West, who in 1914, when she was 22 and he was 48, presented him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Brains, Little Heart | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

ITEM: At a dinner party in New York's Westchester County, the dessert includes grapes. The hostess notices that her fellow suburbanites fall to with gusto; the guests from Manhattan unanimously abstain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...Costley, a former TWA hostess who is a part-time religion teacher and Little League batting coach, is anything but extravagant. She asks her butcher to trim fat off meats so that she will not have to pay for it. Still, she spends $85 a week for food and other household items, or twice as much as four years ago. The Costleys not long ago added a porch, patio and basketball court to their ten-room, $46,000 house, at a cost of $4,200, or $1,200 more than they would have paid in 1967. "But I still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How Inflation Hits Three Families | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...that serves ten. The wine cellar contains an outstanding assortment of Moselle. The tables are decorated with well-worn pewter, the five public dining rooms provide the kind of labyrinthine privacy that politicians prefer, and the two private rooms are perfect for In-timpolitik. Presiding over all is Owner-Hostess Ria Alzen, a 55-year-old divorcee of quick wit and ready warmth. Because of her, the restaurant is usually referred to merely as Ria's, and the establishment is as well known as the Palais Schaumburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Bei Ria | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

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