Word: hostesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answered a Manhattan cafe hostess: "I'd take my most gorgeous negligee from the closet, don it, go to the window and wait for the firemen. . . . I'd risk a few minutes of my life to be seen as I always want to be seen in public, glamorous...
Last week in her own syndicated column, "Elsa Maxwell's Party Line," which is printed not by 20 but by 35 U.S. newspapers, the "World's Greatest Hostess" cracked back: "Speak for yourself, John." Declared she: "In ordinary times, such notice . . . would be flattering. Today it reflects something peculiar in the sense of proportion of certain segments of the Fourth Estate. ... I pit my record against yours on the fight for freedom. My party . . . had behind it one single purpose: to bring every influential force in this country into a liberal, intelligent front against reaction, and for both...
Hate for the Germans ran strong in Brussels. Said a well-groomed hostess at an impromptu cocktail party: "I wouldn't mind a bit if some German soldiers were brought into my parlor right now and shot. I'd glory in the bloodstains on my carpet." Wrote a correspondent: "It doesn't seem incongruous to come across a grey-haired old lady, laughingly pointing to the body of a dead German soldier." Said a choked-up Brussels merchant: "The swine have overrun us twice in a single generation." For the second time retreating Germans burned the Library...
...stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat...
...room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken...