Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hornet last week because she had not thought of the dream party was Professional Hostess Elsa Maxwell whose living comes from giving unimaginative socialites just such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave...
...corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced in the most desirable rooms. Jessie Ralph, as the determined old dowager, keeps a watchful grip on the teapot of hospitality, so that the suburbanites, far from playing hostess, must meekly pass their cups...
...Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, eminent Democratic hostess...
...further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone but his hostess. The golddigger, seeing that her dishonorable designs on the banker were hopeless, became honorable, which disappointed the professional Southerner. The pseudo-explorer, falsely thought to be Flora's lover, tried to get taken on by the advertising man's rich wife. The advertising man, who hated his wife...
...food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside to get colder and harder while the rest of the meal is being prepared." Of party manners: "You will, of course, want to appear well-bred. So hand your hostess a dead fish, do the profile twist, and confine all conversational effort to words such as 'ghastly!' or 'septic!'" Of geniuses: They are forgiven after they are dead; poor sportsmen: never...